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by pekk 3808 days ago
What percentage of CS graduates are capable of writing code to any useful extent? 40% seems like an optimistic estimate, from my experience.
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You are implying an overlap between the people that write good code and the people that finished college, and that is not always so.
Agreed, but requiring no engineering degree throws out the baby with the bathwater.