[rietta]

I would say, yes. Some programmers have trouble reasoning abstractly or think it somehow beneath themselves because it does not produce something real at the end.

There are also "programmers" who's entire method of work seems to be to copy+paste blocks of code from Stackoverflow, only changing the minimum amount to make something load and then move onto the next item in their hit list.

I always liked white boarding problems.

[rev_bird]

I've spent a good chunk of my waking life studying programming the past several years, in an effort to get good at this stuff and really understand what I'm doing. I am incredibly jealous that people get to be professional "programmers" without really caring.