It depends on your area. I am a software engineer and write software for biomedical signal analysis and finance/trading, and I promise you it is very math intensive. There is a pretty wide gap between a SE creating websites and a SE designing trading systems or medical devices.
The math involved in these can be reduced to replace|reduce operations|calculation|procedures in existing algorithms for the most part (or not)? If you need to devise new algorithms for a stock trade or for pattern recognition, signal inhibition or enhancement, etc.. based on domain you might be in an area I don't recognize.
