[throwaway3572]

I’m an electrical engineer who does circuit design. I’ve interviewed many electrical engineers over the years and the situation of applicants having “years” of experience while simultaneously not knowing how to design a single circuit is real. In our field it’s usually because although the person’s title is engineer, in practice, they don’t do any engineering. There’s just a ton of peripheral work (basically paperwork related to operations and compliance), which is very important, but is not design.

My guess is computer science has a similar issue.

Lots of people with programming in thier job title but they don’t actually program. And based on ltbarcly3’s empirical measurement, “lots” is above 10%. ;)

[WalterBright]

If they carry a wallet card that has on it:

    V = I * R
    I = V / R
    R = V / I

they are not real EEs.

And yeah, I've been trashed multiple times for this opinion, but I'm not backing down!

[ltbarcly3]

10% of applicants that make it to a phone screen. I estimate that the number is much lower than 10% overall because incompetent people with good looking resumes tend to do a lot more interviews than good candidates.

[johnnyanmac]

Sounds like the resume screening is either non-existent or insufficient then.