[nicoburns]

There are plenty of people who have a fantastic knowledge of CS theory and are pretty useless at solving real world problems.

[globular-toast]

Again, it depends what you're looking for. If the real world problem is "we need a fast optimising compiler that runs on our embedded platform" then hiring someone who is great solving problems but knows nothing of compiler theory is going to be very inefficient.

[EvilEy3]

> solving real world problems

Define this first.

[slt2021]

changing color of a button in an Electron app, or moving JSONs back and forth (from backend to frontend)