Programmers who can't?
Between Reginald, Dan, and Imran, I'm starting to get a little worried. I'm more than willing to cut freshly minted software developers slack at the beginning of their career. Everybody has to start somewhere. But I am disturbed and appalled that any so-called programmer would apply for a job without being able to write the simplest of programs
Once upon a time when I did job interviews - I had a question that was really an economics question. But it wasn't phrased in a manner that I understood. I'd spent so long being (allegedly) a programmer I was looking for a literal answer. I flubbed the interview. Always useful having that degree in Economics.
I would hope a portion of these would be down to nervousness, not spotting the obvious, trying to out think things and trying to appear clever.