I guess my experience has been the opposite. On every software R&D team I have been on, there has been about an even mix of computer science, physics, and mathematics with a few sprinkles of data science from the biology fields. Especially by year 5 or so - who can tell the difference between a computer scientist that knows physics and a physicist who knows computer science?
The only skills a person needs to learn coding is the desire to learn coding and the persistence to do it.
The only skills a person needs to learn coding is the desire to learn coding and the persistence to do it.