People forget there's a distinction between Computer Scientist / Data Scientist / Software Engineer. They are not one and the same, and depending on your job yo

People forget there's a distinction between Computer Scientist / Data Scientist / Software Engineer. They are not one and the same, and depending on your job you may only need to be one of those three categories. You don't need to know how quick-sort works create a CRUD web application, but you sure need to know how to write clear, maintainable code in all areas from the stack. But if that's all you know you can't expect to excel at a job like generating the Facebook news feed which actually involves theoretical knowledge.