I’m working my way to a CS degree and am currently slogging my way through an 8-week Trig course. I barely passed College Algebra and have another Algebra and two Calculus classes ahead of me.
How much of this will I need in a programming job? And, more importantly, if I suck at Math, should I just find another career path?
That’s one example of your particular programming job. Many real world software systems do not require handling monitoring and alerting especially not using statistics, rolling averages, etc.
For example, I once wrote the encryption code used on smart card chips. Writing statistics for smart card card transactions would be someone else’s job. Same with the modem code I wrote for a product.
So, I’d argue that “frontend” and “backend” are the default modes of software engineering these days, and that embedded is a more niche field.
That said, if you’re doing encryption code, you’re doing far more advanced math than backend monitoring and alerting.