Is there any evidence that engineers who do know all of the fundamentals you expect them to actually produce faster software? I would bet that a lot of the slug

Is there any evidence that engineers who do know all of the fundamentals you expect them to actually produce faster software? I would bet that a lot of the sluggish apps you have in mind were written by people with great fundamental comp sci knowledge. Google probably hires for fundamentals as much as any company in the world and yet some of their main apps (ie. gmail) have abysmal performance. There are just so many factors that can result in poor performing software it's weird to me that you are so focused on something that a great many engineers have never needed to use in practice.