A lot of bachelor thesis from TUM are very very impressive. Back in the day when Paul Emmerich[1] held his talks at the CCC about the user-space network drivers, I looked through a few of them and a good portion of them were "only" bachelor thesis'. I felt very bad when I compare them to my bachelor thesis. But on the other hand, I do have a friend now that is doing her masters at TUM and she says they sometimes have extreme difficulties getting their topics approved, because the TUM wants to stay "elite" and the students are under immense pressure. But hats off to the NVMe thesis. Well done!

[1] https://www.net.in.tum.de/members/emmericp/

Currently a master's student at TUM, and I agree with your friend -- it's a painful journey haha.

Let him at least finish M.Sc. first. Then he can get dissapointed about the industry a bit later.

Get them out now before they find out the truth about academia...