By calling it "fancy unicorn stuff" I mean, it is really hard to come by in real life. Because generally people avoid it and when they don't, they usually use it in a completely wrong way. I saw a Singleton pattern which made me carve my eyes out. And that came from a guy, who was a Senior Developer. And most of the times being a developer is about working with legacy code and trying to fix loads of problems, which wont be fixed in the end because there is not enough time, money and energy and so on and so on and... This makes loads of experienced people move in to management, or creating their own business, because they had enough of the trench work. That's why you won't see talented people on the market. Because they know...

Oh and no, I'm not from that school. But having tests doesn't mean the tests are any good. You can have loads of methodologies, patterns, principles. If you can't tell when to use a Factory Pattern, or how to implement SOLID, then it doesn't matter how much you like, or want them.