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The problem is that a computer science degree isn't the right training for most software engineering jobs.

• giancarlostoro 9mo ago
  My degree was not specifically CS, it was a related degree, the focus was on landing jobs, but they still covered some CS concepts because some students were in fact doing a CS degree. I was more focused on show me what I need to build things. I have never had to hand-craft any algorithm in my 15 years of coding, it just makes no sense to me. Someone else figured it out, I'm contempt understanding the algorithms.
  • shakna 9mo ago
    In my twenty years, I've rerolled famous algorithms "every now and then". Its almost wild to me that you never have. Sometimes you need a better sort for just one task. Sometimes you need a parser because the data was never 100% standards compliant. Sometimes you need to reread Knuth for his line-breaking algorithm.