Anirudh25

The problem doesn't lie only with business schools but with complete higher education. Being a CS senior at Indian University, I have heard about from so many industry experts railing about the huge difference between industry and academic skills.

There is no shortcut or method to better learning. You get better at it by practice. The best way to learn something is to teach it to someone. You can use the revolutionary Fennyman technique for doing this. You assume that you are teaching a new topic that you have learned to a 5 year old.

A smaller company will certainly give me more independence but it will be difficult later when I want to transition to a bigger company. How can we identify good mentors?

Thank you but I am not in America. In India, we don't have the co-op program.

Thanks for the advice. This will be helpful to a lot of my friends who will be starting in the industry.

I agree with you

As someone who will be entering the industry, I loved your perspective on your job at Google. Also, having read Cal Newport's "So good that they can't ignore you", I couldn't help but notice the hunger for independence in good software developers. Would you recommend newcomers to join smaller unstable( more independence) companies or bigger, more stable( Top 4) companies(lesser independence)?