On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, der.hans wrote:

> Am 20. Dec, 2002 schw=E4tzte Daniel Wolstenholme so:
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> > I interviewed there in early 2002, but the impression I got as
> > an interviewee was that it was an all-MS shop as I never saw
> > Linux anywhere, and when I asked about it I was only told about
> > its use in target systems.  All the desktop systems I saw were
> > MS, and I was told that all the host systems were MS using
> > Citrix Metaframe.  My resume intentionally had no mention of any
> > MS products on it, but the people in my interview seemed more
> > interested in whether I'd be willing to learn WinCE than
> > anything Unix-based.  I was told that customers wanted Windows
> > and .NET, so that's where they were going.  Considering that the
> > Dice.com ad for the position seemed very pro-Linux, I felt
> > rather deceived at the interview when I found out how big a
> > priority Windows was.  This was one of the main reasons I had
> > for rejecting the job.
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> Sound like you were i/viewing for a job on the platforms team. The
> main ( only? ) customer at that point was mostly using some m$
> platform. Unfortunately, mgt thought doing free work for m$ would save th=
e
> company, so there was an infusion of wince and .NET.
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> Silly Rabbits.
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> The platforms team had to deal with that directly. I felt sorry for them.
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> > The other was that they had burned through 3 rounds of funding
> > without becoming profitable, and told me that they only had
> > enough funding to last till November.  Guess the 4th round
> > didn't come through.
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> Yeah, they blew through a lot of dough before I hired on. They didn't hav=
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> the dough they claimed when I hired on either :(. I still got to work wit=
h
> some good people, so it was at least a somewhat worthwhile gig.

I'm flattered, LongHair. :)
Anyhew, it's also quite difficult to stay afloat when a certain CEO (she=20
knows who she is) can't deal with not living the high life off the sweat=20
of other people's backs.

Just proves my theory, and what I told them when I was laid off as well.

"I hope you get everything you deserve, be it good or bad."

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> ciao,
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> der.hans
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