Most things I do in my day to day work are dumb. I code around browser incompatibility, write scripts to automate parts to byzantine and stupid buisines workflo

Most things I do in my day to day work are dumb. I code around browser incompatibility, write scripts to automate parts to byzantine and stupid buisines workflows away that survive for political reasons. Etc etc. The point is that if a few months of studying is underneath you, modern software development is going to have far more stupid schlep anyways; I imagine especially at a company of google's size.