I never said the hiring of lawyers is a good example :) The practice of law and law school are two completely separate things. This is something that I think

I never said the hiring of lawyers is a good example :) The practice of law and law school are two completely separate things. This is something that I think Med School has done correctly. Once you finish school, you must do your residency and the school provides this. This is whete you actually learn how to practice your profession. Law school, from what I understand, doesn’t provide this crucial step. Software development does not either, and perhaps this is one of the problems. School teaches the fundamentals, but it doesn’t provide the necessary tradecraft training. So the only metrics to go by are buzzword tests, or arbitrary algorithm tests divorced from the actual job. It’s the rare interview where they test CS fundamentals—which most people should remember, unless they ask for implementation—and coding best (and worst) practices, which is currently lacking.