Because there are a lot of fraudsters. With social skills and salesmanship, you can never have delivered top-class work even after 15 years as a developer. Qu

Because there are a lot of fraudsters. With social skills and salesmanship, you can never have delivered top-class work even after 15 years as a developer. Quite a few people know how to "play the game". That's pretty easy if your superiors have no idea about software development themselves.