I'd presume that anyone with a BS in computer science should be able to write assembly for at least one RISC architecture. I'd also presume that more companies

I'd presume that anyone with a BS in computer science should be able to write assembly for at least one RISC architecture. I'd also presume that more companies would ask them to do so than those who have legitimate business reasons to write something in assembly. We are long past the age of resource-constrained architecture hacks. The closest most people should be getting to metal is ANSI/ISO C, and the others are all writing compilers or doing extreme optimization stunts. Can I write in assembly? Yes. Should I write in assembly? Hell no. Those companies that still require COBOL/mainframe programmers have had literally decades to watch the center of mass of the software industry move away from that, and then still make a conscious decision to pursue a dead-end path to obsolescence.