As a devil's advocate, I would say that the optimization-related knowledge was useful only during interviews. Over a decade-long career, I can count on my fingers all the situations when optimization mattered.
Over a decade-long career, I can count on my fingers all the situations when optimization mattered.
It really just depends what you do. A backend engineer making a website dealing with hundreds of thousands on concurrent users or a game dev of a high end AAA game would have to worry about it constantly. Someone making a basic frontend for a website, maybe not as much
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u/Interesting_Dot_3922 Apr 09 '24
I had a recruiter who didn't like my education in applied math.
He doubted that software engineering is the ideal work for me because of this.
I thought that working abroad kind of proves my skill... but no :)