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Take any Big Tech or BSE 30 company, they will never combine the two roles. Lot of GCs are ex law firm partners or associates or other top tier NLU products, and these people never have CS degree. So if they make CS a precondition to becoming GC then you are foolishly excluding top legal talent from applying for jobs. A lot of old time GCs do have a CS degree because they are from an era where top legal people would almost never move in house because it was not so lucrative back in the day. So these are CS people who had also done law from traditional universities, but their main thrust/ambition was CS always. Many of these people have today become GC, furthering the misconception that the roles should be clubbed.