[jrs95]

And then we seriously overvalue these "core CS skills" for a lot of positions, many of which will not involve actually using any of it at all. I can't tell you how many people I've worked with that could tell you a bunch of Big O crap off the top of their heads but all they were working on was web apps and they couldnt seem to remember that running an ORM query in a loop is a bad idea. The way the U.S. uses college education as a prerequisite to employment but also seems to not be very good at teaching stuff that's actually relevant to the work you allegedly need the degree for is very disturbing to me.