> I generally had very good feedback while I worked but I think I solved harder problems when I was doing advanced physics or calculus in University. It's stan

> I generally had very good feedback while I worked but I think I solved harder problems when I was doing advanced physics or calculus in University. It's standard feeling among many engineers (even more so among non-software engs.). I think it can be remedied to a point - in FAANGS, you can find teams working on very hard things built from first principles (such as no-sql databases). The day-to-day is still filled with a lot of BS and boring work though, and is never going to be as fun as studying maths or physics on your own from a textbook. Such is life. If you want to do interesting things all the time, you need to live your life in a radical way, as the standard path in our culture definitely is not optimized for that. It's much easier and probably wiser to just accept the status quo.