This is exactly my experience too. When I started working as a SW developer, I expected to use a lot of the clever algorithms I had studied at university. That

This is exactly my experience too. When I started working as a SW developer, I expected to use a lot of the clever algorithms I had studied at university. That didn't happen. Instead, the tricky problem was having lots and lots of simple features aggregated together - complexity from aggregation. These were my top 2 surprises when I started working as a programmer: https://henrikwarne.com/2012/08/22/top-5-surprises-when-starting-out-as-a-software-developer/ https://henrikwarne.com/2012/08/22/top-5-surprises-when-star...