I have multiple San Francisco and Bay Area friends that told me similar stories during a time period that coincides with AfroTech in recent years. Completely c

I have multiple San Francisco and Bay Area friends that told me similar stories during a time period that coincides with AfroTech in recent years. Completely contrived, but personalized, introductory events. The difference is that they eventually took the job and have no issue performing on the job or have any stranger than usual corporate experiences. (They experienced the same super long interviewing and matchmaking process plaguing the rest of the industry, and the contrived intros were just the silly responses to how to deal with the recruiting pipeline). These were not right out of college though, and they would have likely gotten responses within 24 hours from the same companies anyway.