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How important is Domain knowledge vs. Technical knowledge?
I often hear from my colleagues and sometimes from interviewers that,
"There is nothing so great in having excellent programming knowledge. One must gain the domain knowledge as the 1st priority. If you have a good domain knowledge, then writing code for that is not a big deal."
(Here domain knowledge is something related to area you are working in. For example, I work in telecom domain, someone might be in Finance or Pharma or Web development or Embedded and so on.)
I disagree with above passage and think exactly opposite. In my career till now, I have seldom missed any deadline for bugfix or feature enhancement. I have kept changing the domains (within telecom) but stuck with learning the programming techniques. Though I might be wrong.
Questions:
- Is my current approach correct ?
- Given a choice between domain or programming (with limited time) which one should be chosen ?
- Is there a good future for a person, who is primarily a very good coder but not so great in a domain (of course initially) ?
I ask this because, I feel that every domain ultimately boil down to code sea in which one has to dive!