Noticing a worrying trend when hiring for a Junior Developer role: recent grads are almost always weaker applicants than those who have no degree but are learning online (for our purposes at least).

It’s getting to the point where instead of a badge of honour, a CS degree is a signal that you’ve spent three years learning Java and don’t have a clue about working with modern web tech stacks, but have high salary expectations nonetheless.

Anyone else seeing this?