Ask HN: As an API/Front end developer, have you ever used maths?
I'm a software engineer working on exposing frontends and APIs for monolithic backends (that already doe the job).
I work for an HR company and basically 90% of job is display data coming from those backends.
Sometimes we need to have an orchestration layer. Most of the time is spent on designing APIs.
As a student I had always been told that in computing maths are fundamental.
Q : As a software engineer in exposing APIs and frontends, have you ever make use of advanced Maths ? Not necessarily algebra : continuity, limits, integral, etc.
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Maths is important. But most of the times only for low level stuff.
I would say, that you should be able to understand a math problem and solution based on the first few pages of a Google search. I would rather hire a person, that sucks at math but can understand the basics of most things in 5minutes.