Whatever you work in, chances are you run into situations where you need to choose between multiple solutions, optimize things or generally find out why things

Whatever you work in, chances are you run into situations where you need to choose between multiple solutions, optimize things or generally find out why things aren’t optimal. Your needs are always your needs, and if you are informed about how different tradeoffs compare, it helps to understand how they work. To keep things more substantial, consider facing issues storing data at your company. Maybe the nature of your data flow causes constant slowness, because your B-Tree indices are being constantly rebalanced on writes. You knew this because you understand how B-Trees work and you also know LSM trees might be a better data structure for your needs. And so what I mean is that understanding the big blocks you use in high level often requires understanding data structures and algorithms, even though you don’t need to implement them