"So much so that, for some subjects, employers now require at least a Master's degree."
"I think CS and SE lecturers could learn a thing or two from me about writing good software."
"Many of the CS graduates I know suck as software developers, too."
"Hiring a computer science graduate for a programming role is, to me at least, like hiring a theoretical physicist to fix your car. "
"Just as there are countless CS graduates who have a theoretical grasp of compiler design but have never design a language or implemented a compiler."
Most of your selected quotes are (probably) referring to programmers who only have a Bachelor's in CS.
"So much so that, for some subjects, employers now require at least a Master's degree."
"I think CS and SE lecturers could learn a thing or two from me about writing good software."
"Many of the CS graduates I know suck as software developers, too."
"Hiring a computer science graduate for a programming role is, to me at least, like hiring a theoretical physicist to fix your car. "
"Just as there are countless CS graduates who have a theoretical grasp of compiler design but have never design a language or implemented a compiler."