It doesn't. It's just coincidence. In the SV there is a lot of emphasis on academic CS trivia for "engineering" roles. It's caused by many things: (im)maturity

It doesn't. It's just coincidence. In the SV there is a lot of emphasis on academic CS trivia for "engineering" roles. It's caused by many things: (im)maturity of the field, of the people who go into it, and the glut of CS grads, many (if not most) who think they're mathematicians while they work on glorified CRUD and ad-publishing apps.