In fact, Trilogy had wined and dined him over margarita parties in Pittsburgh and flown him to Austin for private parties in hip nightspots and aboard company boats. Today, apparently, it’s the company trying to fit in with the students. What a change from my own college days, just a little more than 20 years ago, when students would put on their dressiest clothes and carefully hide any counterculture tendencies to prove that they could fit in with the company. ![]() “Hey man, I just signed on with these guys.” In fact, as I would later learn, he was a gifted student who had inked the highest-paying deal of any graduating student in the history of his department, right at that table on the grass, with the recruiters who do not “recruit.” An obvious slacker, I thought, probably in a band. ![]() This young man had spiked multi-colored hair, full-body tattoos, and multiple piercings in his ears. I noticed one member of the group sitting slouched over on the grass, dressed in a tank top. They’ve come to campus on a workday, all the way from Austin, just to hang out with some new friends. ![]() We’re just hangin’ out, playing a little Frisbee with our friends.” How interesting, I thought. “No, absolutely not,” they replied adamantly. Several had identical blue T-shirts with written across them-Trilogy being an Austin, Texas-based software company with a reputation for recruiting our top students. As I walked across the campus of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University one delightful spring day, I came upon a table filled with young people chatting and enjoying the spectacular weather.
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