Wanting to Enter the Tech World While Being Non-technical
In recent years, there has been a lot more emphasis on one path — learning to code, majoring in computer science, and then being an engineer at a tech company. It has been drilled into our minds that if you want to go into tech, you have to learn to code. While there’s nothing wrong with that, that leaves the non-technical people uncertain of what to do. I understand that technology companies are in need of technical folks, but don’t they also need people in their marketing, sales, and HR departments?
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Coding isn’t necessarily something I want to do as a career. What I actually want to do in the tech industry is to manage the business side of things including management and product. But is coding really necessary? Will I be missing out if I didn’t know how to code? That left me very conflicted.
Later, I realized that though, yes, knowing how to code is certainly a plus, but it is definitely not required for non-technical folks in tech companies to survive. For example, as a marketing manager, there’s no interaction with code because all the engineers have it done. The main task for the marketing manager is to figure out strategies to get the product or service in front of a bigger audience.
I think we need to get rid of the idea that anyone who works in a tech company is technical. While encouraging more people to learn coding, we must also teach them to be aware that non-technical roles are also a crucial part in what makes up a tech company.
