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by epolanski 4 days ago
Well almost 70% of the developers in the industry can't write a fizz buzz.

But, besides coding skills (which some possess), the engineering, social, and business ones are close to non existent.
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chipsrafferty 4 days ago
0% chance this is true as I work at a F500 where I can assure you that probably every developer can write fizz buzz.

I would bet my life and everyone I care abouts' lives that much more than 70% CAN write fizz buzz.

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baobabKoodaa 4 days ago
Did you pull this 70% out of your ass or from some other place? It's quite obviously not reality.
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epolanski 4 days ago
https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/

There was also another study I cannot find where 56% of engineering graduates struggled to write a fizz buzz.

I think people highly underestimate how long is the average developer, closed in their bubbles of mostly well established software teams that forget that for each of them there's 10 software consultants in southern Europe glueing APIs with trial and error on Java 8 monstrosities.

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baobabKoodaa 4 days ago
The link that you gave does not show this 70% number anywhere? Also, the link is from 20 years ago. I don't believe the real number is anywhere near 70%. Maybe 10% or something.
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epolanski 4 days ago
Mate, you're on HN, you live probably in a bubble made of better software developers than the overwhelming majority out there.
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