[cookiengineer]

Most of the phenomena you describe are kind of the result of hiring students straight after or even during their Bachelor's degree.

Most Universities on the planet teach Java as an introductory language (which makes sense to be honest) but they stop after that.

And then students know how to quicksort in 10 different ways, but not how to MVC or even how to build a web app.

Personally I think that our education system is botched there, because most of the theoretical knowledge is only important in the "paper writing" context. Once it gets into applying that knowledge into practical use, most students are lost because their professor never taught them how.

Only the self-taught students who were bored to death in University are actually the ones capable of doing so.

[unmole]

> Most Universities on the planet teach Java as an introductory language (which makes sense to be honest)

Respectfully disagree. Depending on what the introductory program wants to focus on Python, a Lisp or even C make more sense than Java.