I often say that it takes years to wipe computer science off of recent grads and make them into engineers. Do you need to memorize the algorithms so you reprod

I often say that it takes years to wipe computer science off of recent grads and make them into engineers. Do you need to memorize the algorithms so you reproduce them off the top of your head? No! Should you be aware of what they are in a comparative sense, and have a rough idea of what family of them you should be applying? Yes. You need to learn just enough to keep learning, and more so when your applying, because only through use do you gain mastery. That. Takes. Time! As for "will it get you jobs" -- at a subset of companies it will. Another subset will ask you to "write" code (and this is wrong as well)... Do you want to work for those companies is the larger/other question.