It's a good question. I want to think that most of the students we graduate could do this (once they learned Rust, as it's not part of our curriculum, but they

It's a good question. I want to think that most of the students we graduate could do this (once they learned Rust, as it's not part of our curriculum, but they could do it in C or Java or something). But our (CMU CS) students get a fair bit of algorithmic experience, and I'm not sure how you're defining "junior dev" (and the experience of a junior dev probably varies widely given the many different paths to get there).