Hilarious but I doubt the article’s accuracy. I know that in the IT industry I often interview with GoogleWannabes now. God, it’s annoying. Their conceit is beyond words, they place great emphasis on solving a Rubik’s cube in 30 seconds but few of them can deliver eight hours of work per day.
And meanwhile guys like me, 55, willing to work, and wanting a permanent position so I can concentrate on building my reirement nestegg, can't find such work, and settle for being temps. I've been in IT for 10 years, know th hardware, and can learn any software they put in front of me. I'm damn good at what I do, and can learn any IT job they want me to do, if I don't already know how to do it. I can train, install, troubleshoot, run a Help Desk, Manage a crew of workers, keep track of important milestones and make sure they're done on time, and in short, do the damn work, but i get beat out by stupid kids with no work ethic, who will work for peanuts.
I was told by an interviewer for a job some years ago, when the salary equirements came up, that they couldn't pay like the "big cities", because their locale was "Mayberry". Knowing the interview was over, I asked him, "Well then, which one are you? Andy, Barney, or Goober?" I'll bet he never used that analogy again.