That's traditional at the Big 6 (now 4, or whatever it is now). Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) bought an entire former college campus and prides itself on

That's traditional at the Big 6 (now 4, or whatever it is now). Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) bought an entire former college campus and prides itself on churning new hires who majored in almost anything (many liberal-arts majors like English or what have you) through a six-week programming course there, and then putting them on jobs. I went through it. I walked past one such hire on the job afterward, and noticed that the code on her screen made a line from the upper left to the lower right corner. Closer inspection revealed that she had written 32 nested statements to iterate through the 32 characters in a part number (used by our clients for military equipment). After leaving 5 years later, I went to PWC (then just Price Waterhouse). They did not have their shit together nearly as well as Andersen, let me tell you. So... that's kinda scary.