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Is this real? I mean I work in Data Science and do quite a lot of programming but I'd assumed my abilities would be far below that of any Software Engineer. I

• Jensson 4y ago
  The worst programmers mostly work in very low paying jobs. You wont find that many of them in higher paying jobs since they are so easy to weed out in interviews, only desperate companies hires them.
• Cthulhu_ 4y ago
  Unfortunately, yes; there's a lot of companies - "enterprise" - that will hire a contractor which intends to make as much money as they can. They'll send a couple decent engineers, impress the client, they will ask for more, and they'll start filtering in more and more mediocre or outright bad developers, whose lacking skill is compensated for by the good ones. But I'm 99% sure the enterprises are aware of this. They want the good developers, but realize they have to deal with bad ones too, and are willing to pay the cost and accept the risk it brings. I mean outside of that it's fairly normal that a team will have a healthy mix of seniors (who do the meetings) and juniors (who do the work), but you'd still expect a baseline of quality and a technical interview there.