Education doesn't really stress readable code. Thus, must in industry don't care about it either. I've met plenty of uber smart people that write crap code (it

Education doesn't really stress readable code. Thus, must in industry don't care about it either. I've met plenty of uber smart people that write crap code (it works, but poorly maintainable, hard to read). The engineering/quality side of SWE matters way more in 90% of roles than the comp sci theory... so the whole training system is pretty backwards. But industry will move to higher and higher level abstractions over time, just like bit manipulation questions don't get asked in interviews anymore. And I suspect serverless will neuter the design interview to a pretty great degree over the next few years. At least personally, I've found interview questions that are light on theory (but still contain some), and heavy on coding to provide a signal that correlates much better with real world performance.