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I'm myself from a background irrelevant to computing. My honest opinion is that for commercial coding, it doesn't matter. It's become fashion to call everything "engineering" but really programmers in the main are more akin to plumbers.

Within the population of programming jobs, some are actually pretty serious, actually require solid CS basis and a scientific approach. If I was hiring for that sort of job, Id look for higher degrees and experience. Similarly with data science type stuff. When it gets hard, you need the right background.