> Some of us have deep understandings of algorithms, linear algebra, and CS theory, and others know how to style a button with appropriate margins. I'll leave i

> Some of us have deep understandings of algorithms, linear algebra, and CS theory, and others know how to style a button with appropriate margins. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to decide which of these is more difficult. I have the former, but 95% of the value I bring to FAANG is the latter. My job lately is to double the revenue of various products that were built by a thousand deep algorithm workers but got no attention in the attention economy, by identifying and improving which button color (eg) would direct the traffic. My simple work gets all the money directed to the company, but was far easier than the hard work of making The Thing. Because algorithm nerds often have no idea what is appealing or valuable to human customers.