Comment by ben_w

You're sound.

The problem is when you've got a new grad with no fundamentals and 10 year old buzzwords.

I've had the unfortunate problem of having worked with someone who was that, except not even a new grad, they'd been at the same project for something like a decade and were between 10 and 20 years our of date in how to think about both what computers now did under-the-hood with the code and also didn't understand the fundamentals of writing that code in the first place.