It was an incredibly well-written piece, and I really enjoyed it, but I share the same misgivings you do. It just all felt so incredibly naïve- although, in fai

It was an incredibly well-written piece, and I really enjoyed it, but I share the same misgivings you do. It just all felt so incredibly naïve- although, in fairness, we all have to start somewhere. To most people, the idea of expecting to have a job waiting for you upon graduation because you interviewed in the fall of your senior year is mind-boggling. Most people, I venture to say, are lucky to have a job by graduation. I'd think it's far more normal to start looking around that time and hope to find something by summer. The proscribed promotion and 'levels' and 'staff software engineer' titles that apparently make one impossible to fire (?) feel like something out of a fantasy. Something, by the way, this piece shares with a piece posted a few days ago about climbing the latter at FaceGoog or something to that effect, and how you're either up or out. It all feels like something out of a foreign country or planet to most of us, I venture to say.