There are many "engineers" today who learned Python for six weeks and got good at interviews but have very little real world experience, and an army of contract

There are many "engineers" today who learned Python for six weeks and got good at interviews but have very little real world experience, and an army of contractors that are worse. They sound competent at a high level but their work requires googling everything and they don't know what decisions are good or not. When management says "cut all staff by 10%", those 'engineers' go too.