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I knew a music major who is a Linux kernel dev hacker. I know someone who has a law degree who worked on the file system your probabily using now.

Don't be so quick to judge.

Nobody's saying music majors are incompetent. But this woman's sole qualification is that. She is not a "kernel dev hacker" AFAICT. Do you know if she is in any way qualified to be CSO of a huge corp handling so much sensitive customer data?

Based on her work experience she seemed qualified.

You mean her "Head of Security when Equifax was Hacked" work experience?

I heard she was in a similar role at First Data, prior to the Equifax gig.

She held another position as director of security, but no hands on technical roles ever. It really looks like the resume of a middle manager who moved to CSuite. I didn't see anything that indicated she was technical

Don't hire an unqualified person. These two things are not equivalent. Their major in college is only one small part of that picture.

I have known people without degrees (or without relevant ones) that learned on their own and were great. I have known people with a CS degree that were terrible.