You can see algorithmic aversion every day on HN, in the form of those who complain about the algorithmic portion of the technical interview.
They act as if the only way to get algorithmic knowledge is to grind specific examples, when really if they would read through Knuth they'd be fine.
These are people who see algorithmic knowledge as the bane of their careers rather than seeing algorithms as:
1) a great way to add value to resource constrained projects
2) a trivially simple and easy way to signal programming abilities, letting you easily breeze through the interview
I seriously would hate having to work with one of those who take pride in how little computer science they know, and because I run a math and computational geometry heavy organization, I will never hire them. But I would estimate that algorithmically and mathematically averse coders form the majority of coders.
They act as if the only way to get algorithmic knowledge is to grind specific examples, when really if they would read through Knuth they'd be fine.
These are people who see algorithmic knowledge as the bane of their careers rather than seeing algorithms as:
1) a great way to add value to resource constrained projects
2) a trivially simple and easy way to signal programming abilities, letting you easily breeze through the interview
I seriously would hate having to work with one of those who take pride in how little computer science they know, and because I run a math and computational geometry heavy organization, I will never hire them. But I would estimate that algorithmically and mathematically averse coders form the majority of coders.