Ha! if only that were true... Maybe at a real modern "software" company. But there are plenty of places where 50% of their so-called software engineers couldn'

Ha! if only that were true... Maybe at a real modern "software" company. But there are plenty of places where 50% of their so-called software engineers couldn't write a simple program from scratch. In fact, as I think about the cases I've seen, it seems to get easier with senior "SWEs". They can exist going to meetings and delegating work until one day they forget themselves and apply at a company that actually expects SWEs to have a basic understanding of programming.