TBH these days, even if the CS curriculum doesn't require an undergrad to cover the above, there's plenty of rich material online (youtube etc) that cover these

TBH these days, even if the CS curriculum doesn't require an undergrad to cover the above, there's plenty of rich material online (youtube etc) that cover these fundamentals - so in my view, you'd have to work hard to avoid knowing about them if you're serious about a career in this industry. heck, even a decent-sized side-project would quickly expose one to DBS intricacies , computing tasks in parallel or across networks of computers. I don't see how a more stringent CS curriculums would help here - the market is often ahead of academia in this respect (computing).