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Some very valid points made in this post. Is CS valuable? I believe it is. I've witnessed the difference first hand in our startup but then again it's "hard tech."

The part I question is, the percentage of programmers that will work at a "hard tech" company is so small that, unless the company you're working at is a hard tech company, then there is no relevance to onboarding someone with CS skills. It does not diversify the team. Diversification in a team is of high value. Most engineers want to hire others engineers so that they have something to talk about. But that's a comfort thing.

Long story short, soft tech companies should only have one or two hard tech engineers on their team especially in the early days and only test at the skill level required when onboarding.