[29athrowaway]

In an ideal world, yes.

In practice, many colleges fail to teach those skills.

And accreditions depend on governments which are sometimes corrupt or inept.

[b20000]

companies can keep a list of universities and decide to only screen those who do not have a degree from those universities. the list can be dynamically changed based on on the job feedback.

any university in western europe is pretty hard to graduate at without actually having these skills. so it is pointless to enforce coding interviews for those who graduated there. you can’t “buy” a degree there.