This big company offers a series of management programs for its newly hired college graduates, with focuses ranging from manufacturing and engineering to finance and IT, says a pilot fish working there.

“New hires would work a series of six-month assignments over a period of two years,” fish says. “The better they proved themselves in the program, the better their final job at the end — a Director position wasn’t unattainable.

“As a result, they tended to work hard, party hard and make hard demands on the folks they interacted with.”

One of the management wannabes needs some work done on a system fish supports — an additional screen, plus database changes and code to make it all work — and, as is typical, waits until it’s close to performance review time before getting fish the specifications.

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