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Comment on Ask HN: CS major who doesn't want to code. Am I in the wrong major?

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No, you are not in the wrong major. There are many career paths available to you. I work for Boeing, and we have a lot of people in systems engineering roles. They define requirements, perform integration, and generally do a lot buisness like tasks on the engineering side of the org chart. There is Quality Assurance, where you need to understand code but not necessarily write it. In addition to that there is Configuration Management. Our current SCM lead is not a coder but you need general technical ability.

Those are just a few examples, but it shows that there are careers out there that require a technical background but don't involve coding.

However don't expect to jump int business/marketing/management" out of the gate with a cs degree. Your going to be competing against mba's, and people with marketing degrees.

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