[throwaway89988]

Sorry, you lost me there. I am CS and literally every single one colleague in IT with an electrical engineering background where subpar compared to CS students. (Of course I don't claim that is true in generell or for that there are no electrical engineers who can be great developers.)

One background I will respect is mathematicians, it is always a joy to learn from them and the can model very nice abstractions. Again, in my personal experience, no claim how general this is or that there are no exceptions.

[ActorNightly]

>IT

This is a different field. Many software engineers have no clue how to set up networks or administer things like routers or firewalls. At the same time IT people usually don't know how to write things like backends for web apps.

[ahoka]

No, it means something more generic.