> Unless you are a superstar, there is no way you get a TT job without a postdoc in math.
Seeing that my institution and lots more do have assistant professorships for new PhDs in math, and I even have friends who have attained such positions, this is very much true. Of course one needs to be relatively successful.
Edit: Okay, it appears that some people consider those positions “postdoc in disguise”.
This is exactly one of the points raised in the text. Non-TT assistant professorships are indeed postdocs, which often come with more teaching load than other fellowship-based postdocs. This is for example the case of the "Hills Assistant professorship" at Rutgers
Seeing that my institution and lots more do have assistant professorships for new PhDs in math, and I even have friends who have attained such positions, this is very much true. Of course one needs to be relatively successful.
Edit: Okay, it appears that some people consider those positions “postdoc in disguise”.