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The description "software engineering" is starting to cover too broad a field and seems to be the main cause of confusion for many here (evident in some comments above).
If you're building software from scratch or very near the metal, rather than very high level 3rd party bespoke business agile solutions, of course knowing graph theory is going to be more useful than studying stuff like requirements and configuration. they're completely different areas and it's just disappointing to read confused defensive comments by some seemingly insecure "offended" types here.
Perhaps worth writing a post some day about different layers of the software cake sometime to clarify such things.
I don't have the credentials for Google, and nor do I intend to work on that kind of software anytime soon - most of my work is with high level languages/frameworks and problem solving with those, but *still* found your content valuable.
Would have thought fewer words are better to describe most things well, but your blog proves otherwise. don't be put off, ever, and keep up the great work.
Mar 13, 2008, 10:15:00 PM
Posted to Get that job at Google