Very very true. Training is a lost art in the software industry. Facebook, to its credit, provides a bootcamp to new hires, which is rare enough to be industry.

The problem with offloading it to universities is you turn the academic and foundational theoretical into the practical, thus making them vocational schools.

There needs to be a system of apprenticeships in software, not just internships for some and co-ops for University of Waterloo students.