I was just wondering, when applying for jobs/internships at startups, is it appealing for someone to have knowledge and skills in both business and programming?<p>The reason I ask is as follows. I am a sophomore at university, where I study marketing as a major and split my free time between reading business books (the lean startup, four steps to the epiphany etc.) and coding. I took intro to cs last semester so I have some knowledge of java and am now working through the Stanford openclassroom web development course and plan on building knowledge from there(html,css,js,ROR, SQL, etc).<p>So I'm just wondering whether it is appealing from a hiring standpoint to have a varied skill set like this.
In theory yes....but in reality it is more of a "what comes first the chicken or the egg".<p>Startups are not that interested in university experience. They want real world work experience. People with real world experience in both marketing and coding are not interested in working for a startup. (they usually have there own startup)<p>It's much better to be great at one than an all around player. If your great at one, you will land with a great company and be exposed to learning on all sides.