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by banner2018 2305 days ago
In my 2 decades of making livelihood with programming full time job, I have seen CS grads feeling brain dead while a Starbucks barista writing better coding. I am probably more humble observing people over all these years to admit that anyone can be a programmer given the opportunity and the heart / zest to dig deep be thorough with the solution.

The part of recent grads getting job is more related to market conditions, back in 99 recruiter would be happy to hire anyone who have attended the programming 101 while in 2001-2002 no one even wanted to talk to 5 -8 yr experience candidates right after the market crash