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army1987 comments on What false beliefs have you held and why were you wrong? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 October 2014 11:34:49AM 3 points [-]

By “programmer” in this context I meant ‘someone who applies for a programming job and makes it to the interview stage’. Which unless they outright lied on their CV means they probably have some kind of certification. In another article I read that more than half of comp sci graduates can't do FizzBuzz.

In a halfway decent world, granting a comp sci degree to someone who can't do FizzBuzz would be punishable as fraud.