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I recently survived a massive lay-off at work. The experience marked me so I decided to write about it for the cathartic effect. When I graduated from Software Engineering, I was ready to take on the world. I noticed a job posting for a Python job and was intrigued by it. I like playing around with dynamic interpreted languages and thought this might be a good place for me to work. The interview went extremely well and we had a pleasant discussion about software architecture. The team lead and senior programmer who interviewed me were enthusiastic, friendly and had a compelling vision of their software system. One detail they revealed was that they had built it to load all objects into memory. This sounded like a horrible idea to me, I told them they might have trouble scaling this architecture. They reassured me that this wasn't a problem as the system ran smoothly. The interview went so well that I was offered a position the following morning.