I took it as a metaphor for other types of engineering. With software engineering we teach people how to walk a tree, schedule threads, do matrix transformatio

I took it as a metaphor for other types of engineering. With software engineering we teach people how to walk a tree, schedule threads, do matrix transformations, etc. in school, then throw them into a job where the big problems are more like "How do we make the web page fast enough for the vendors in Mumbai without violating GDPR?"