Personally I found it a bit disappointing moving from academia to industry and finding out that there is not much of a market for algorithm implementation or de

Personally I found it a bit disappointing moving from academia to industry and finding out that there is not much of a market for algorithm implementation or development/research. Sure, there are specialized products where they are important (DB, OS, languages/libraries, trading systems) and even places for algorithms in business apps, but it doesn’t seem you can really “specialize” in it as a career (like distributed systems, system programming, frontend) unless you’re very picky about which jobs you take.