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<p>That’s how it’s going to be in many disciplines, in any school. There are going to be courses that you don’t really need for the job. How many engineers actually use multivar calc? Not many. How many linguists need to know about head-driven phrase structure? Not many. But knowing the theory is part of the field.</p>
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<p>What’s your source on this? I really don’t think that most of Berkeley CS grads are going to end up doing the grunt work of coding. Sure, they might do some light coding to test out designs and such, but the real grunt work is going to be shoved on newbies, etc. Of course, Berkeley grads will be newbs at some point, but I’d say it’s likely that many of them move up. (I have no source for this speculation, though, except perhaps the career data collected from seniors.)</p>
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<p>Exactly.</p>