Subj : Re: Academic grades should be USELESS
To   : comp.programming
From : Phlip
Date : Mon Jul 25 2005 08:00 pm

Ed Prochak wrote:

> And to provide a specific example, I know of an Engineering student
> that spent his co-op sessions at one company, winning an internal
> company award and impressing several managers. When job offers came
> out, two of his buddies (with slightly lower grades), got job offers
> from the company, but not him. He got up the nerve the ask the manager
> he worked for. Thankfully the manager was very honest and said it came
> down to one interview question:
> Where do you see yourself in 10years?
> Which the student answered that he hoped to have moved up and possibly
> be a VP by then.
> The manager said, the company wanted folks that would be happy being
> Engineers for next 30years.

Ouch. Bit by the misconception that VPs can never write code.

Ouch.

I might have said, "In a progressive leadership position that still
maintains a lot of contact with real code."

That means if the VPs are forbidden to progress, or to touch code, you are
safe!

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  Phlip
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