Not that the Gervais Principle is wrong, but you gotta think bigger. If you're at a conference where no one knows of a functional company with good teams that

Not that the Gervais Principle is wrong, but you gotta think bigger. If you're at a conference where no one knows of a functional company with good teams that are hiring... maybe you're at the conference that attracts all the people stuck in a world of terrible teams and dysfunctional companies? I mean, doesn't it make sense that if you can't identify good teams or good companies, you'd also suck at identifying good conferences? ;-)