The East Coast is locked into the number of years you’ve been out of school. If you don’t have grey hairs then you can’t be a vice president, even at a start-up. You’ll never find anyone under fifty in the top ranks of the big Route 128 companies. Those companies hand out charts to all the employees showing number of years out of school and pay scales. That’s the trouble with the parochial East Coast business environment, it’s too rigid and conservative. There’s no incentive for someone who’s bright and energetic but has no degrees.
