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No. It's a small company ~400 employees in total, including contractors. The CEO is a very technical guy. The average tenure of the employees let go was ~8 years.

Layoffs are a difficult thing for employees and their managers. I have seen people (one was a VP of Engineering) escorted out of the building, sent in a cab to home along with a se…

Two bad experiences with Uber support - I don't use them unless there is no other option. I have an Uber account with my email id(gmail) with a '.' in it. It so happened that someo…

Happy to read VAX/VMS here :-) - my first project as a college fresher was migrating critical data from VAX/VMS ISAM files (written using Fortran code) to Digital Unix. The days wh…

I worked on Vax/VMS about 19 years back. Their documentation was the best. There was a mailing list of vax users, one of the best I have ever been a part of . The people were extre…

We used it at Yahoo! for detecting misbehaving ads . I remember it as a one man shop, looks like they sold it to Sophos .

I was at Y! at the same time , I witnesssed so many managers gaming the review system . So many funny , and some sad stories from that time.