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Hey everyone! 👋 Are you a computer science student who’s feeling burnt out from all the coding and debugging? 🤯 Maybe you’re like me and looking for a career that’s adjacent to computer science but doesn’t involve coding all day long. 🤔
Here are some non-coding careers that are related to computer science and could be a great fit for you:
- Product Manager: Utilize your technical skills to oversee the development of software products without actually doing the coding yourself.
- Technical Writer: Communicate complex technical information in a clear and concise manner for a variety of audiences.
- User Experience/UI Designer: Create intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for software applications.
- Systems Analyst: Analyze and improve computer systems to help organizations operate more efficiently.
Have you considered any of these options? Or do you have any other non-coding careers in mind that could be a good fit for computer science majors looking to step away from code-heavy roles? Let’s start a conversation and help each other out! 🚀✨
radiology. CS is involved in radiology. There would be no radiology without CS. You can totally do both, I have several friends who were radiology or cardiology fellows who do research in CT and echo reconstruction.
I interviewed a Solution Architect and he did computer science in school. This role doesn’t really require much coding – it’s more to do with the implementation of software and setting up scripts that sort of thing. It’s not hard coding like a software dev would call for. If you’re looking for inspiration on career paths, you may find GradSimple interesting since stories of college grads finding their way through life and career are shared weekly. You can also maybe check out Fetti since they do feature snippets of hiring managers every now and then that could be of inspiration to you.
Project/Product management.
System admin
product/project management with software products.
much more interacting with the customer, identifying needs, prioritizing work etc.
i work as an application analyst after receiving a degree. i work within an IT department and just support our enterprise level software and workday
Sales Engineering for a software company.
A lot of roles you’d find in digital/technology transformation projects: project manager, product owner, business analyst, enterprise or solution architect
Go into AI prompt engineering it will be big soon enough. Most organizations need to create a playbook for AI. It isn’t going to work to say I want to convert our marketing department into AI generated content. A Marketing content strategist comes up with complex and detailed strategies applying to content that gets produced all up for the brand identity. Anyways if you want to use AI for marketing that strategy should be translated into a prompt template and right now no one knows who to hire for that position. My wife is a content director for a big tech company and she is just winging it trying to make the CMOs vision work.
You could consider a QA role but IMO being a developer is more fun. But you may like it! It’s a pretty easy job but it can also be a little mundane but no coding required!
What about computer science did you like?
I wanted to do computer science and ended up an electrical engineering major because I don’t like sitting at a computer all day for work. (Actually I like Minecraft and it turns out there’s a lot of overlap between Redstone components and electrical engineering). I’m not sure what concentration I’m going to focus on, but for now it’s a lot of math and physics
QA/SDET has long been a career path for those in a position like this. But companies have drastically reduced how much manual testing they do and so the number of QA jobs out there goes down every year.
Management of Information Systems. It’s lite IT and business management.
For a drastic change atmospheric science, I think a decent number of atmospheric scientists actually start as CS majors (also math and physics pretty often), you’d have to learn some extra stuff but it’s doable, also grad school is funded most of the time so you could use that as a way to get caught up for relatively cheap, it might not be what you’re looking for but I think it might be worth looking into? Especially since it’s becoming a bit more social/communications focused now from what I understand
BA, Architect
Systems engineer. You can work with larger companies like HP, IBM or Oracle as a sales engineer.
If you are meaning jobs that still involve computers, but have little to no coding:
networking
database administration (not database developer)
in many cases system administration has no coding, but some places may ask for scripting
security
testing
Automation. It’s mostly ladder logic, which is a visual programming language, so not like real programming.