> I’m so used to the relentless negativity (much of it, unfortunately, justified) that comes from posts that start with “My experience at …”. I’ve helped with

> I’m so used to the relentless negativity (much of it, unfortunately, justified) that comes from posts that start with “My experience at …”. I’ve helped with some mentoring programs on and off over the years. Most students and grads actually have very positive experiences in their internships and first jobs. There are exceptions, of course, but they’re more rare than you’d think from reading Reddit CS career advice forums and trending stories on HN. One recent quirk I’ve been seeing is occasionally a junior person will have a good job but for some reason or another become convinced that they’re working for an abusive company under terrible conditions. It sounds strange if you’ve never seen it, but some young people come into the working world with a lot of weird misconceptions they pick up from Reddit and other social media. For example, I’ve seen multiple young developers have near crises because their companies have code review and their seniors have a lot of feedback and changes in their code reviews. We spend a lot of time mentoring about what’s normal and why getting feedback at work is actually a good thing.