I blame the trend of “software development” as a job role getting farther and farther away from the task of writing programs.

There are lots and lots of big company jobs where you can skate by writing ~100 lines of code a week (or less!) all inside the mandated Big Company In-House Framework. In fact your boss demands that you work this way.

I mean, that was totally me for years, so I’m not judging too harshly.

I’ve been at a senior level for a while with a bunch of projects in daily public use that I can point to and discuss at length.

I’ll still google “how 2 for loop” sometimes.

> Are they just blatantly lying on their resumes?

How would anyone know? Once a candidate fails the screen, the company rejects and never gives a second thought to the candidate again.

Does any company do follow-up to see what happened in the future to rejected candidates? I've never heard of that happening.

The coding screens are just assumed to be infallible, so the candidate must have been a fraud. It's unthinkable that the screening tests themselves are wrong, because then the whole hiring process is misguided.