[hjkl]

I'm a guy who went to school for a BA in Film/Digital Media and a BS in Mechanical Engineering. I now work as a software engineer. It is my opinion that my BA in film to did not develop any more "soft skills" than my engineering degree.

The implication in this article is that you either think like an engineer or you think like... I don't know, someone who studied liberal arts? I think this is a false dichotomy. Engineers can understand customers just as well as someone who studied film/anthropology/politics/whatever.

[WalterSear]

Better, if understanding that customer's requirements involves engineering something. This "maybe you can engineer, but I got 'wide ranging experiences'" shit has got to stop. You can't get a liberal education in a classroom - you have to go out into the world and teach yourself.

(Social science undergrad/MS, FWIW, with plenty enough shakespeare and philosophy classes)