So last week I volunteered with an NGO. I teamed up with a peer to interview a few engineering college students. These kids were in their first year of engineering. So, we both decided to keep the qualification bar a bit low and not focus on advanced software engineering topics. TLDR: We still ended up eliminating 80% of the candidates. When we asked the kids about simple programming concepts like “how does a website work or a database works” – we realized that those were too much for them to handle. Some didn’t even know the full form of SQL.…