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Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Post by grepfru_it »

sgarland wrote: post #108
jjice wrote: post #6

I want Oxide to do so well. The product is a breath of fresh air in the era of cloud providers. As an engineer, I'd kill to get to work with their hardware. Not to mention that working at Oxide sounds like a modern Sun Microsystems with the ideology that team has. Highly recommend their podcast "Oxide and Friends", and their original "On The Metal" show. I've attempted to apply to their company multiple times over th…

Oxide is literally the only company where I have found zero reasons why I would be unhappy to work there. I have listened to many, many podcasts, read RFDs… it always seems like a place I would thrive. To that end, I have applied twice in the last few years; unfortunately declined both times, but to be fair, the first time I didn’t know any Rust, and the second time, I was learning it. I will apply again at some poin…

I tried applying to Anthropic twice. Rejected. Then I see people with way less skill getting jobs there.

Network with people at the company and third time may be a charm. Maybe.

Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Post by [deleted] »

zapu wrote: post #157
q3k wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The particular 'mess' I've encountered was I applied (wrote 11 pages of interview material) on 2024/09/29 and then received a canned 'yeah whoops sorry for taking this long, not interested' on 2025/03/24. That's almost 6 months of delay from submission to first contact. Terrible process. You need to give feedback early if you're not interested in someone, not leave them hanging for nearly half a year.

Hah, oh no, if they (practically) ghosted q3k, then most of us have no chance.

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Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Post by grepfru_it »

nwienert wrote: post #151
pizzafeelsright wrote: post #125

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Yeah, I thought about applying. Investing 6 hours into applying for a position should warrant a response beyond 'we are going to pass'

It's so disrespectful to not give feedback to people you reject, companies that do it should be shunned. Have some respect, be human.

Then the human that is rejected files a lawsuit.

Humans doing human things

Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Post by grepfru_it »

bcantrill wrote: post #82
mrcwinn wrote: post #67

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I understand that all employees have equal salary pay (apart from sales people who can earn more and are valued higher). Do all have equal equity and voting rights, at least within common stock? And since transparency is a core value and principle, will you commit to sharing your cap table publicly?

I appreciate that our approach to compensation leaves some with overwhelming feelings of whataboutery, but no, we (of course?) do not have equal equity: as we have said (several times?) equity broadly compensates for risk -- and risk has gone down over time. (I used to tell people to "value the equity at zero"; I don't say that any longer because it plainly isn't.) In terms of the cap table: that's a bit of an odd re…

Hey Bryan

A good rule of thumb is to always ask to see the cap table as an early employee. Question them when they don’t. Probably not so much with 0xide at series C, but definitely demand it at preseed and series A.

Hope all is good with you bro

Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Post by effisfor »

bcantrill wrote: post #87
dorongrinstein wrote: post #16

I met Bryan Cantrill the CEO of Oxide many years ago. He's awesome. I am rooting for Oxide to become as big as Dell.

Thank you for rooting for us! One important point of clarification: I am the CTO -- the CEO of Oxide is my co-founder, Steve Tuck. Long before we know what we wanted to do (or had a name for the company!), Steve and I knew we wanted to do something together; it's worth getting to know Steve (and our collaboration) in his own words![0][1] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVkIKm9pkPY [1] https://www.youtube.com/watc…

Sorry if this sounds like a letter to Santa Claus Bryan, but when you do really well in this market, do you have any plans to build something this well rounded for small dev agencies, faculty-level education, etc?

Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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zapu wrote: post #157
q3k wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The particular 'mess' I've encountered was I applied (wrote 11 pages of interview material) on 2024/09/29 and then received a canned 'yeah whoops sorry for taking this long, not interested' on 2025/03/24. That's almost 6 months of delay from submission to first contact. Terrible process. You need to give feedback early if you're not interested in someone, not leave them hanging for nearly half a year.

Hah, oh no, if they (practically) ghosted q3k, then most of us have no chance.

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Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Post by _zoltan_ »

adastra22 wrote: post #146
ironhaven wrote: post #135

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They already picked out a interconnect standard it is called 100 Gigabit Ethernet. They can interoperate with multiple different vendors using the sfp28 ports on the switch. I bet they are even working on new programmable hardware for a next gen 200 Gigabit Ethernet fabric with oxide controlling the entire stack from hardware to software

Ethernet would add way too much latency to this application.

ever heard of RoCE? what latency are you thinking of in the Spectrum-X 800Gbit RoCE era?

Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Post by _zoltan_ »

adastra22 wrote: post #131
girfan wrote: post #127

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Interesting. What would the incentives be for NVIDIA, for example, to opt into this? They are building their own racks now, like the NVL72 etc.

None, they won’t. But it would out Oxide into the strong negotiating position, and not at the mercy of NVIDIA. NVIDIA has one primary weakness here: GPUs are NOT optimal hardware for training or inference. No competitor has the market reach to challenge them though. An open standard supported by high growth, breakout startup would change that though.

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Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Post by aabhay »

I simply don’t see the value here. At the cost of these systems its inevitable that you hire at least one person full time to manage your rack infra, and that person would likely prefer the customizability of commodity hardware.

Source: I run a startup that recently did our datacenter buildout. At no point were we at all interested in a single integrated vendor.

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