Maybe they all have that problem and no one has ever bother to actually check the data?
I know for me and interviewing programmers my personal experience is the degree doesn't matter. I've met plenty of degreed "engineers" who couldn't program for shit from schools like MIT and Harvard. I've also met some amazing programmers from those same places. I don't know what make the difference except possible love of the activity. Not sure how to asses that in an interview or whether it correlates better with outcomes.
Re:Enough with the Programming Puzzles
by icebraining on Monday June 06, 2016 @08:51AM
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For medical doctors, having a degree just means you get to spend years in a residency training program under supervision. SEs also have internships, but they usually want someone they don't need to train from 'scratch'.
Is using a degree useful for hiring medical doctors, mechanical engineers, actuaries? It's really hard to believe that only Computer Science as a field has a problem where it's churning out people who are technically incapable of programming to such a degree that you need to explicitly test them in interviews through "puzzles".