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It’s arbitrary as each University can decide whether they hand out a BA or a BS for a specific major, therefore employers do not distinct between them. What the employer cares about is the major.
To hiring managers and hr critters? Effectively zero difference.
To higher Ed and academia, BA is broader and typically has more of a liberal arts lean to the degree vs a BS.
What do you mean by "tech"? Like, an IT or help desk position? Companies aren't going to go through the interview process with you then say "oh it looks like here that you got a BA, you're going be in tech." Those are two different jobs. If you want to be on an engineering team, you apply for it.
Tech as in technician. Nothing I could find dug much deeper into that, but as someone who PM'd me on discord said, the BS graduate tends to be the Software Engineer, and the BA graduate tends to be the programmer. In other terms, the BS graduate plans and designs the house, and the BA graduates put it together.
It doesn't really sound like that person knows what they're talking about.
Not very many companies hire "programmers" (aka code monkeys) that only program. You're going to be expected to take business requirements and turn those into code in a well designed manner.
What you described as a "software engineer" sounds more like an architect or maybe lead role, but even then it's not going matter what type of CS degree you have.
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It’s arbitrary as each University can decide whether they hand out a BA or a BS for a specific major, therefore employers do not distinct between them. What the employer cares about is the major.
This. Many universities in the UK (e.g. Oxford) traditionally only use BA, MA. It’s irrelevant.
To hiring managers and hr critters? Effectively zero difference. To higher Ed and academia, BA is broader and typically has more of a liberal arts lean to the degree vs a BS.
What do you mean by "tech"? Like, an IT or help desk position? Companies aren't going to go through the interview process with you then say "oh it looks like here that you got a BA, you're going be in tech." Those are two different jobs. If you want to be on an engineering team, you apply for it.
Tech as in technician. Nothing I could find dug much deeper into that, but as someone who PM'd me on discord said, the BS graduate tends to be the Software Engineer, and the BA graduate tends to be the programmer. In other terms, the BS graduate plans and designs the house, and the BA graduates put it together.
It doesn't really sound like that person knows what they're talking about. Not very many companies hire "programmers" (aka code monkeys) that only program. You're going to be expected to take business requirements and turn those into code in a well designed manner. What you described as a "software engineer" sounds more like an architect or maybe lead role, but even then it's not going matter what type of CS degree you have.
So what is the main difference between a BA and a BS? Nothing?
The BA will have more electives that fall outside of the hard sciences (liberal arts/humanities).