[jariel]

"But they would know that going in."

Kind of.

Even most mature academics don't really have an idea of how industry really works, let alone 22 year olds.

Yes, on some crude level, but the materiality of what that means is hard to fathom.

[abhinav22]

I don’t disagree. It’s at a crude level and its obviously quite difficult when you are young and still haven’t fully formed a view of the world and the direction it’s headed in. But the signs were there — this is at least as far back as 2005 when I graduated. Even in the early 00s, it wasn’t an easy situation and my guess is from even before. Science has always been a difficult field to crack into.