{"id":245928,"date":"2026-01-19T07:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/245928\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T07:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:31:17","slug":"google-founder-sergey-brin-i-chose-to-study-computer-science-because-i-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/245928\/","title":{"rendered":"Google founder Sergey Brin: I chose to study computer science because I had \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/google-co-founder-sergey-brin.jpg\" alt=\"Google founder Sergey Brin: I chose to study computer science because I had \u2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <a href=\"https:\/\/gadgetsnow.indiatimes.com\/brands\/Google\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" target=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google<\/a> co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sergey-brin\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sergey Brin<\/a> recently offered a peek into one of his life\u2019s decisions and how the value of higher education is changing in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Speaking to a new generation of engineers at Stanford University recently, Brin said that while the \u201cStanford-to-Silicon-Valley\u201d pipeline remains legendary, his own path to becoming a tech leader was defined by curiosity rather than a strategic pursuit of credentials.\u201cI chose computer science because I had a passion for it,\u201d he told the student gathering, while adding, \u201cIt was kind of a no-brainer for me. I guess you could say I was also lucky because I was also in such a transformative field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AI is changing education but Sergey Brin says don&#8217;t abandon fields<\/p>\n<p>Brin\u2019s comments came at a time when there\u2019s a narrative that the rise of AI is challenging long-held assumptions about the value of higher education. For example, AI models like Gemini and ChatGPT are becoming increasingly capable of writing code, many students have questioned whether a computer science degree remains a viable investment. Brin cautioned against fleeing the field out of automation fears.\u201cI wouldn\u2019t go off and switch to comparative literature because you think the AI is good at coding. The AI is probably even better at comparative literature, just to be perfectly honest anyway,\u201d Brin quipped.<\/p>\n<p>Google is changing how they hire<\/p>\n<p>Despite his academic push, Brin acknowledged that Google\u2019s hiring philosophy has evolved significantly. The tech giant is increasingly looking past the four-year degree in favour of \u201cself-taught stars\u201d.\u201cIn as much as we\u2019ve hired a lot of academic stars, we\u2019ve hired tons of people who don\u2019t have bachelor\u2019s degrees,\u201d Sergey Brin noted, adding, \u201cThey just figure things out on their own in some weird corner.\u201dThe numbers back up this shift. Citing data from the Burning Glass Institute, a report by Fortune said that the share of Google job postings requiring a degree plummeted from 93% in 2017 to 77% in 2022. Notably, Brin\u2019s comments align with CEOs like JPMorgan\u2019s Jamie Dimon and Palantir\u2019s Alex Karp. Both of the leaders have supported that high-paying roles should be for those who have proven skills and should not depend of their formal education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google co-founder Sergey Brin recently offered a peek into one of his life\u2019s decisions and how the value&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,131864,343,344,101864,133,131865,85,46,131866,32518,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-245928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-changing-education","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-computer-science-degree","13":"tag-google","14":"tag-google-hiring-philosophy","15":"tag-il","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-self-taught-skills","18":"tag-sergey-brin","19":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}