Comment Re:depends on what you're going into (Score 1) 656
I'd say this is mostly a marketing issue, not a knowledge issue. In 50 years including a number of years working on missiles and satellites, I really never needed to know much beyond trigonometry and algebra. The occasional (and they were rare) forays into linear algebra (for non-mathematicians that's using matrices to solve systems of linear equations). and statistics were stuff I could look up if I knew where to look which I did. I'd venture to say that operating systems programmers, database programmers, etc probably don't need any math they didn't know when they were eleven.
But there is a problem with selling yourself. Your problem is how to do that.
On the bright side. I didn't come close to understanding calculus. For the most part I still don't understand calculus beyond a vague idea of what it is trying to do -- at least not integral calculus. But I discovered early on that most of the budding engineers and scientists in my classes didn't understand the subject any better than I did. So I managed to squeak out Cs.
Not only have I never needed integral calculus, no one has ever asked me what sort of grades I got in any of my classes.