Most of professional software development is knowing what's out there and connecting them together. It's basically data plumbing. There's nothing wrong with tha

Most of professional software development is knowing what's out there and connecting them together. It's basically data plumbing. There's nothing wrong with that, running water and sewage are two of the pillars of civilization! The problem is that lots of companies have high opinions of themselves and even if most of their work is plumbing and plumbing supplies, insist on having a hydrographer and a physicist on staff in case they really really need an R&D program that can produce a O(k) B-tree or some nonsense.