Well the title (and contents) pretty much summarizes the industry: never trust a programmer who says they program. No matter how many years they worked, how ma

Well the title (and contents) pretty much summarizes the industry: never trust a programmer who says they program. No matter how many years they worked, how many projects they have shipped, how much code they share on GitHub, disregard everything and require multiple rounds of rectal examinations every time they apply for a job. They could have written millions of lines of code, it doesn't matter coze it's not the latest fad and anything before last week's paradigm was just monkeys hanging out from the trees, it was clearly impossible to write any business logic before last's week invention of <insert latest craze here>. Find some obscure crap you freshly read about that they don't know or don't remember since using it once 20 years ago and apply the very correct and fair logical inference "IF THEY DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING THEN CLEARLY THEY KNOW NOTHING". Something along this: "So... you call yourself an English speaker? Native, ehh? Read plenty of books, wrote Medium articles? We'll see about that. OK, use 'Floccinaucinihilipilification' in a sentence that makes sense! Don't know? What a surprise! OK, one last chance, try not to omnishamble again. What's the velleity of the quincunx tintinnabulation? ... Just as I thought, you're a fraud and a sham and clearly don't speak English".