Google Android head Sameer Samat to engineers: Beyond the degree, you should have…

Google’s head of Android Sameer Samat told aspiring engineers that a computer science degree alone isn’t enough to land positions at top tech companies, emphasising that candidates need to develop deep expertise in areas they’re genuinely passionate about beyond their formal education.

Speaking to engineers, Samat argued that the computer science major desperately needs rebranding, as it’s commonly misunderstood as merely learning programming languages like Java.