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I was done with LinkedIn after this: In Defense of Female Engineers

... Bubble sort, bad programming at its finest but can't be beat when you need a simple and fast way to reliably sort a small list

Or the list is already mostly sorted.

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Supporting a World in Pieces Through Nuclear Proliferation

A Look at Sexism in Technology for Female Software Engineers

I'm a male software engineer, and I've seen enough Good 'Ol Boys shit in my industry to last me a lifetime.
I deleted my account with LinkedIn and refuse to associate with them ever again.

I've seen this at my college as well. CS students graduated without actually having programmed.

Colleges actually encourage this with their way of teaching:
- Massive classes without any real contact with teachers
- Weird focus on working in project groups

Doing everything as a project with small assignments often has one student both leading and finishing the assignment. Other students then get demotivated.

The obvious solution is to do like companies do. Companies like Toptal vet their applications via Codility. They'll do a Skype session and have you finish a couple of small assignments.

Obviously, this isn't always applicable. But when students hand in their assignment on, say, networking, then the teacher could ask each student for a very minor change in the assignment. And see how he's doing.