When you have a job that pays a lot of money and requires no formal credentials whatsoever, people can and will try to get into that job even though they’re not

When you have a job that pays a lot of money and requires no formal credentials whatsoever, people can and will try to get into that job even though they’re not qualified for it. This is why there are programming candidates failing fizzbuzz. It’s the equivalent of someone applying for a pharmacist position and not knowing what antibiotics are, but it happens, because anyone can call themselves a programmer.