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> You assume anyone except the hacker knew anything about AWS. There were a lot of smart and experienced people at Ubiquiti when I worked there. Nick Sharp manipulated his way into…

> Also, even though they may have had read access, not many knew it existed. But it wasn't super hard to find (I stumbled across it basically). We didn't have read access until Nic…

> For reference, I spent a year (mid-2018 to mid-2019) running the UniFi Network team and worked with Nick during that time. Nick's whole strategy was to find a problem, exaggerate…

Ex-Ubiquiti employee here. Nick Sharp wasn't just a senior software engineer. He was the Cloud Lead and ran the whole cloud team. His LinkedIn profile will confirm it. This is why …

I worked there and I didn't even understand why we had to force cloud logins on Dream Machine. In the early days we were all about letting people run their own controller hardware …

Several of us from the UniFi team went to competitors but we're focused more on enterprise. We always thought MikroTik was one of the biggest competitors for low cost equipment. Ou…

There was a lot of infighting and turf wars when I finally quit. I'm not even surprised that this latest turf war spilled into the news.

The gear is locked down to UniFi firmware. Some of us wanted to open it up to alternatives like OpenWRT but that wasn't an option for us.

Is that going to the trace service? There was a falling out between teams while I was there because the cloud team wanted to collect stats from APs even when users disabled analyti…

He was in charge of cloud when he "found" a way to forge Ubiquiti SSO logins for any user using his root access to the SSO signing secrets. In the Krebs article the whistleblower c…

> they’re definitely moving in a little bit of a different direction then where many of us would hope it pains me to say this because I was there for the UniFi glory days: The old …

> There was no company wide communication, and all communication channels were made private I couldn't understand why the ex-Amazon cloud lead was also in charge of Slack. When he …

Most of the US leadership and many of the US employees quit in recent years. The CEO wanted to focus on international offices where employees were cheaper. It was backfiring while …

I remember the cloud lead they hired out of Amazon was as toxic as they come. If he's still in charge I can see him blaming his own team members. The culture at Ubiquiti collapsed …

The early days at Ubiquiti were good. I worked with a lot of good engineers and we shipped good work. The decline is a recent problem. > How the brand hasn't become toxic already i…

I worked at Ubiquiti while you were there. I can confirm that the company was going downhill fast. The US offices were starting to feel empty because so many people were leaving th…

The directors and VPs quit, also.

Yes! The move to low cost countries is confusing because the company has more than enough profits to pay high wages. I think the company wanted offices in cheaper countries because…

Some of the best engineers I worked with were in non-US offices. They were also smart enough to leave. You cut my quote short of the important part which was "and employees complai…

Ubiquiti had a steady exodus of engineers in the past few years. It's a very different company now compared to the glory days of UniFi.

As a former Ubiquiti employee, I'm sad to watch the slow decline of the company. There was a steady exodus of engineering talent through 2020. The CEO was focused on moving to coun…