About 1 out of 100 people i interviewed actually know how computers work
Either you're really, really crappy at filtering resumes and other pre-interview signalling - or you're exaggerating.
Either you're really, really crappy at filtering resumes and other pre-interview signalling - or you're exaggerating.
No doubt they exist - but they aren't 99 percent of all resume-screened applicants. Let alone co-workers.
For some, it's the boot sequence of a PC. For others, it's the Liskov Substitution Principle. For others, it might precise definitions of all the database transaction or normalization levels.
That is - pieces of genuinely useful knowledge, to be sure. Stuff we probably should have been exposed to at least once. But also stuff that, once we've gotten the basic point - is easy to slip out of our muscle memory over the years.
Especially as we end up doing, you know, real work for real people. And we start to develop genuine technical horse sense that goes beyond the ability to memorize (and retain for years and years) zillions of verbal definitions for things.