Good! The last thing we need is to centralize brainpower among 5-6 too-large companies. There's also the dirty secret that there are lots of hard problems out

Good! The last thing we need is to centralize brainpower among 5-6 too-large companies. There's also the dirty secret that there are lots of hard problems out there, and you probably have a better chance of working on one of those hard problems than you would at Google, where you'd come up against people with decades of experience and lots more credentials than you. We should be warning grads that getting into Google could mean you getting paged to keep Gmail running at 4am in the morning, rather than figuring out a sweet graph analysis problem. I worry that the grasping for status for some is actually a cover for, "I don't know what to do but I would like others to validate me."