Actually even in the west coast we have a hard time finding candidates that can write even fizzbuzz level of code. Its not even a recent problem. The worst I'v

Actually even in the west coast we have a hard time finding candidates that can write even fizzbuzz level of code. Its not even a recent problem. The worst I've hard was a person with 20+ years of consulting experience for top companies in firmware could not code 3 lines of C code to traverse a linked list. Literally didn't know the syntax to dereference pointers!