[axegon_]

≥ That depends on what you are looking for, though. They're probably morons if they are looking to hire a junior developer. If they're hiring someone more senior, I don't think it's obvious that they might be morons.

I think you misunderstood me. I'm talking about the sheer basics from people like Kernighan or Robert Cecil Martin. If someone at a small and largely irrelevant startup had the pretention to know better than them, them they are the definition of morons.