<p>Come to think of it, I can’t recall any programmer I’ve worked with who had biology degree except for a guy at Boeing who had a Ph.D. in Fisheries and was a team lead for a group of programmers. His hook was his knowledge of statistics. He may have been the best lead I ever worked with.</p>
<p>I’d say outside of CS, most of the programmers I’ve worked with had degrees in math and various engineering degrees. </p>
<p>I also used to work with lots of programmers who didn’t even have college degrees, though I rarely see that anymore. I’m hearing that you can get programming jobs at start-ups without a degree.I can believe it, but I haven’t personally been seeing that. </p>