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Re:The rise of never-ending job interviews by nuclearnice1 on Monday August 02, 2021 @09:22AM (#28036173)
I should clarify I lifted the 99% stat from the linked wiki. I agree it seems high.

I’ll estimate zero to 10% wildly incompetent. Many of the folks who aren’t able to program find other ways to be useful: Testing, requirements, prod support, sys admin, config. It’s not even clear they couldn’t program, but maybe came to prefer the other work at some point.

What’s your wildly incompetent estimate?

Re:The rise of never-ending job interviews by LorenPechtel on Monday August 02, 2021 @12:38PM (#28038994)
The problem is the percentage of wildly incompetent applying for your job is a lot higher than the percentage of wildly incompetent overall.
Re:The rise of never-ending job interviews by dnautics on Monday August 02, 2021 @02:17PM (#28040546)
absolutely. The incentives to train for the job search and then apply (and succeed at) a job with zero relevant competency, are quite high. And there are... geographies... which have a deserved reputation of being mills for those sorts of individuals, likely because the economic incentive is even stronger than the median, which I suspect is quite annoying for actually competent people that come from those geographies.
Re:The rise of never-ending job interviews by nuclearnice1 on Monday August 02, 2021 @04:35PM (#28042280)
Didn’t mattkrause acknowledge as much in his comment?

> The job market, …, is undoubtedly enriched for them.

Re:The rise of never-ending job interviews by mattkrause on Monday August 02, 2021 @10:25AM (#28036914)
A few percent maybe, but not as high as 10 percent. It's also not just people who "can't" do it, but also those that aren't motivated or cooperative (for whatever reason).