I think most young engineers are surprised to find that after they've navigated the hiring guantlet at BigCorp, they were never interviewing for a specific posi

I think most young engineers are surprised to find that after they've navigated the hiring guantlet at BigCorp, they were never interviewing for a specific position to begin with. They were interviewing to be thrown into a pool of new hires. When they show up for their first day of work, then they basically role the dice to determine whether you go to team A (interesting work) or team B (shit work).