It is hard for some people to grasp the sheer amount of fraud in this industry. A while back I worked with two guys, one with a Master's and the other with a PhD. One day they came to me asking for help, because the program they'd written (in Python) wouldn't run. It was supposed to analyze some text, and spit out whatever the result of the analysis was.

The problem? They were passing the input text as hardcoded plaintext, i.e. it wasn't even a string with quotes or anything -- just `foo(here is my raw, non-string input, no quotes necessary lol)`, and they could not conceive of what the issue might be.