Well, true, in the way the sentence is written I am generalizing.
It meant to have a "usually" after the first parenthesis and the "don't"
And in the same way I know programmers who never heard of the Newton-Raphson method I know ones that know a lot about scientific subjects and mathematical methods.
The only reason I object is because people keep saying this stuff and it becomes accepted wisdom. Like "Programmers don't know the basics of science", "Software engineers always build an over-abstract, enterprisey-mess" or "people that studied computer science are only interested in solving esoteric technical things and have no view on business needs".
Whatever it is, it's starting to feel like there are a whole load of stereotypes building up that don't apply to me but might prejudice future work opportunities.
This might happen, but this may be easy to filter in a CV/Interview setting (especially if the recruiter knows what they're looking for), and, of course, job application (one of the reasons to tune-up the cv and add relevant information to the cover letter).
I always made sure to get the point across, for example "oh, I see that your job opening mentions Finite Element Method and the area of numerical computation is something that interests me" or something similar for the other examples (if it's relevant to my case).
It meant to have a "usually" after the first parenthesis and the "don't"
And in the same way I know programmers who never heard of the Newton-Raphson method I know ones that know a lot about scientific subjects and mathematical methods.