This is my experience, too. I'd even wager that most audio engineers who program learned something like, you know, Audio Engineering and just kind of slipped i

This is my experience, too. I'd even wager that most audio engineers who program learned something like, you know, Audio Engineering and just kind of slipped into programming along the way. This maybe makes them a worse programmer than a CS grad, but a heck of a lot better audio algorithm designer. Many algorithmical problems can be solved in code, but they require specific knowledge about the problem space, which CS grads lack. This is not to say that CS grads are bad at maths, it's just that audio engineers spent years learning about hearing, acoustics and audio analysis and audio algorithm design is more than just some linear algebra.