> because the average SV programmer isn't plugging in cables, installing Windows, or fixing their company's simple PHP site. A good number of programming jobs

> because the average SV programmer isn't plugging in cables, installing Windows, or fixing their company's simple PHP site. A good number of programming jobs in Silicon Valley are actually closer to "fixing the company PHP site" on the complexity spectrum than many people would like to acknowledge. Just because many companies have developed a recruiting process that tests for knowledge that is most likely to come from a computer science degree doesn't mean that, at the end of the day, a good percentage of said companies generally have little more than one or more mundane CRUD applications that need to be extended and maintained.