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In my experience, less than 5% are actually writing algorithms and solving harder problems. I work at a consulting firm with 100 or so developers, and most seem
by sandos 8y ago
In my experience, less than 5% are actually writing algorithms and solving harder problems. I work at a consulting firm with 100 or so developers, and most seem to do "simple" stuff most of the time.
The most complex thing I have heard of is someone who wrote a kalman filter thing for some part of a nuclear reactor. To me it seemed hard since I don't understand the math, and apparently people around him was happy with his solution.
Also here in Sweden I don't think the CS algorithms are very important at all when getting a job. I have just not seen it that much, which is sane since nobody seems to really need it anyway...
- pmarreck 8y agoI googled kalman filter https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-pictures/ https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture... Looks interesting!
- AstralStorm 8y agoAnd obviously the standard CS books tell you little about numerical and stability issues you get to solve to have an actually really working and accurate Kalman filters. It might be touched upon in doctoral or post-doc courses... Whereas electrical engineer gets drilled about noise, stability and uncertainty all the time. Rarely even about mathematical chaos and chaotic systems.