> If you want a trade school grad, hire one from a trade school. There's nothing wrong with that.

If someone wants a person with good CS fundamentals and an idea of how to write code in a non-trivial codebase (so commit messages and an idea of concrete SQL and not just "I've proven this expression is correct but never ran it") they should look at Computer/Software Engineering programs, or at least select CS candidates from schools where the program incorporate real software development.