Good post. But hard to square with my experiences when I lived in Silicon Valley, where companies seemed genuinely desperate for new coders
When I ask programmers about this, they say that those recruiters aren't after "star" graduates, they're after the few competent ones.
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I.E. the average CS graduate can write a program about as well as the average English graduate can write a novel.
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Ask a programmer about "fizzbuzz" at some point, but be prepared for a very strong reaction.
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