Solid advice for recent grads. Most of the list pertains to software engineers, too. To add to #4 - "You must be able to handle irrelevant criticism": when I

Solid advice for recent grads. Most of the list pertains to software engineers, too. To add to #4 - "You must be able to handle irrelevant criticism": when I was working as a junior developer, my mentors would intentionally throw in a hideous design element if they were going to present a prototype to product management or design. This would give certain product management types something obvious to point out and fix, and offend designers so much they'd work to get us prettier assets ASAP. The better PMs were able to see through the trick and focus on the real problems. I thought this was stupid until I saw how well it worked.