Similar things have been written about IBM and others. Like what Cringely wrote about IT, IBM, and Memphis. For some reason, it's called "trashy gossip" when Zed writes it, but Cringely gets a bunch of people agreeing w/ him and providing insider accounts. No one ever seems to come and prove Zed wrong with facts of their own.<p>For example, no one seems to say, "Oh I was there, and the situation was way overblown. ThoughtWorks was kidding, never serious w/ its intimidation. And offering a junior sysadmin job to a real programmer applying to Google is just a starting point. It's not because of a screwed up corp. hiring process."