There are no adults in the room
&gt;If you go into a company expecting to be handed work on a platter and to have someone know exactly what is going on, the way that, say, a college professor knows how to teach physics 101, you are going to be disappointed. It’s much more likely that the folks who are senior to you are trying to stay one step ahead of the customer.<p>I had a &quot;non traditional&quot; education.<p>I was a great High School student, but once I was in college I struggled, mostly due to non educational issues (poor reading comprehension, depression, general issues I think would be termed ADHD) and I dropped out.  I managed to work my way into the tech industry with luck and just making stuff work.  The fact that I didn&#x27;t and wasn&#x27;t going to know what to do I chalked up to my own reading comprehension and other issues.  So I just accepted it and kept &quot;moving forward&quot;.<p>Meanwhile a lot of friend continued on through college being very successful and accomplishing a lot and then... really struggling when the working world wasn&#x27;t fair, and perhaps most importantly didn&#x27;t provide a prescribed path to high fives, good grades and knowing they were doing it right and would get good outcomes.<p>So I&#x27;m often working with CS grads and I see the same thing from some of them, folks struggling when they&#x27;re not told what to do, how, and confidant in their own actions.<p>Education seems to provide a lot of specific environments that just don&#x27;t exist outside that and it tends to be a bump in the road for a lot of people.