I mean, if you work as a Staff engineer in a department that only does web app development (say, working at Shopify on their rails codebase) I can easily see th

I mean, if you work as a Staff engineer in a department that only does web app development (say, working at Shopify on their rails codebase) I can easily see that you wouldn't come into any contact with bitwise operators at all. Rather, your time is probably better spent on scaling databases, refactoring codebases and other such higher-level things.