[srtjstjsj]

Most employed programmers can't do "industry grade engineering". Physics grad students are plenty capable, with a boot camp if needed.

[wegs]

It's not a hard set of skills for physics grad students to pick up, but it's a bit more than a boot camp. Most of the deep stuff is there. There's a lot of shallow stuff at this point, though.

Most don't want to do the work (not implying laziness -- it's about interest / fit / etc.).