>As an interviewer I will be able to tell this. Who cares? You're just another job among the hundreds out there. That CS grad could be working on very difficul

>As an interviewer I will be able to tell this. Who cares? You're just another job among the hundreds out there. That CS grad could be working on very difficult problems... or he could be pushing web apps for the next four years because his interviewer promised him cool toys and tough problems and then bait-and-switched. Not all of the school programs are top notch. Not all of the students that pass those programs will remember half of what you mentioned in your post or even recall the solutions when a typical problem is staring them in the face. His confidence will be misplaced, and now you're back to where everyone else is: assessing actual skill instead of guessing with credentials. Frankly I'm alarmed that you've placed so much faith in that credential. For America in particular it really doesn't mean that much on its own unless you went to a well-known school. Not all CS programs are created equal. I'm certainly not going to burn cash and time because of spooky predictions of developer armageddon. People with four years of actual experience will be just fine. Personally I'd be more interested in security-oriented devs. That's more important than knocking a few thousand cycles off of your algorithm.