[austin-cheney]

That depends upon expectations set by leadership. I wouldn’t call someone who can’t do more than copy/paste React boilerplate any kind of engineer. At a bank everyone who is more than a junior employee wears the title Vice President, but almost none of those people are even in management.

The choice employers must make is whether it’s cheaper to overpay for someone who cannot do what they are hired for or spend the extra time waiting for someone who can. So the flip side is that hiring programmers that can’t program is gatekeeping for the hiring managers.