> Lawyers and doctors still have an intelligence test in the form of admissions criteria to universities, programmers don’t. This is both incredibly rude and p

> Lawyers and doctors still have an intelligence test in the form of admissions criteria to universities, programmers don’t. This is both incredibly rude and pretty much irrefutably true. As a startup cofounder I've had the experience to hire like 3.5 programmers to do front-end work in the past year. I'm not at a specially "hot" location for developers, but my n=3.5 anecdata is that the few intelligent programmers you can find have terrible work ethics and continually try to spend more time with what they find interesting and avoid drudgery work. The hoi polloi (who might have made damn fine designers, copywriters, etc.) rely on stack overflow for whatever they can, and dither on the slightly more challenging tasks they didn't know existed. Besides filtering on IQ, one thing a nerdy education teaches you is that challenging problems are often solvable if you will just [wo]man up and try.