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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (462418)	3/9/2009 8:11:05 PM
From: bentway	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574499

It's not just the Ivy Leagues. A startup I worked for hired a guy with a degree (in Music) from MIT and a masters in mathematics from Stanford. My boss was overly impressed, and allowed the guy to force everyone one his team to code to his standards and plan, which, when successful, was going to be extended to the entire company. There were two other teams already doing just fine, hitting their deadlines. I led one and a buddy led another. We had to bail out the genius. In his own way, he was an ideolog too! An OO programming purist, he insisted EVERYTHING be an object. He ended up being demoted to a mere engineer.