I am lucky. My employer is one of the "criticized on CC " companies which does the following:
1- We pick our source schools very carefully (some might say we are prestige %^&;s)
2- We pre-screen our new grad candidates even before an interview (yes, we ask for SAT scores and GPA and we have a couple of diagnostic tests to test critical thinking and writing and mathematical skills)
3-We do research ahead of time so that we know that a philosophy major at Princeton has taken a more rigorous curriculum than a business major at fill-in-the-blanks average school.
I’ve gotten a lot of flack on CC (there are people here who believe that because they were never asked their SAT scores when interviewing out of college, that their kids will never be asked- maybe true depending on the industry, but also maybe not.) but this is reality at a very large global corporation- and at every other global corporation I’ve worked for, and for my colleagues at other big companies.
Why is this relevant? because this means we don’t really care all that much about college major for non-technical roles. Yes- if you want to develop aircraft components at Boeing you need to be a mechanical engineer or an aerospace engineer. But if you want to work in market research at a big pharma company or do investor relations at a consumer products company or work in municipal bond origination at a big bank, you need to have good skills- reading, writing, 'rithmetic, people skills. But companies which are screening out low GPA’s and “can’t write a topic sentence” kids can afford to look beyond the college major.
how many of us here are working in the field we majored in? Very few I would guess. I majored in Classics; my boss majored in Renaissance Studies.