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Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by ghaff »

gedy wrote: post #84
999900000999 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually did apply, The mere application takes hours upon hours, and for what a generic rejection email. This isn't the worst though, I recently went through an interview with another startup company, and after six interviews and a take-home project I found myself getting the same generic rejection. The CEO went out of his way to tell me he didn't like my resume since I've had to hop around a little bit to stay emp…

> Concerns that should have been handled in the initial call, somehow get pushed back till after I've wasted monumental amount of time. Honestly these "reasons" they give are usually BS excuses when it basically amounts to they don't like your personality or looks.

Eh. I've been on a bunch of hiring committees. It hasn't been personality or looks. But a combination of things that we probably didn't all agree on and that may not have been able to fully articulate in a short message.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by mynameisvlad »

zozbot234 wrote: post #189
nerdsniper wrote: post #186

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They aren't explicitly, but, if you ever find yourself in a position where you're part of the hiring decision, it's best to categorize vibes as protected for anything written or otherwise recorded. SCOTUS has found non-protected categories can still be protected because they are "proxies" for protected categories. One of the classic examples of this are zip codes[0], which was found to be a proxy for race, because it…

Do "vibes" really matter all that much when you're going to be working 100% remotely? Maybe we should be moving to fully blind auditions for such jobs, where the interview might still be proctored in some way to prevent outright cheating, but the people who make the hiring decision aren't even put in a position where they might "vibe" with the candidate.

I mean, yes. You’re still working with them even if it’s behind a computer screen.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by SSLy »

kevinrineer wrote: post #170
cyberpunk wrote: post #155

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… Ancient jvm running under wine with webstart just to get to the remote console? ;) I do not miss those days.

You mean you don't have that issue anymore? I'm jealous.

at least relatively – gen9s, almost 10 years old by now – modern HPE iLOs have HTML5 remote console. dell too I think.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by unnah »

bubblethink wrote: post #153
jeffrallen wrote: post #132

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If you have ever struggled with a server whose bios won't netboot because there's a misconfiguration on the switch, or the Ethernet cable is not coded right for the speed of the server's card (because your vendor silently "upgraded" you to 25 Gbit because they were out of 10 Gbit cards), and then when it does boot, it is thermally throttled because it's tiny fans happen to be blowing in the one spot where your electr…

All that is fine and well, and I love coreboot, openbmc, etc. as much as the next guy, but how is this a business with growth or scale? In particular, you are not going to sell to the large clouds as they do a similar thing in house, you are not going to sell to the large LLM labs as there isn't much of a story with NVIDIA here. All you are selling to is on-prem deployments for old(er) school workloads, which to me i…

There are plenty of old-school companies in Europe still working on moving to the cloud. Now that there is a burgeoning movement towards avoiding American cloud providers, Oxide could have an opportunity to sell "private cloud" servers instead. If they play their cards right, they could make significant inroads in European markets.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by robinhood »

999900000999 wrote: post #67
shimman wrote: post #7

Oxide is the only company where I check the careers page hoping that they have a position which I can apply to. Happy to see their success. Especially so if you've been following their journey through their podcasts (easily the best tech podcast out there if you care about your craft; no filler, all killer).

I actually did apply, The mere application takes hours upon hours, and for what a generic rejection email. This isn't the worst though, I recently went through an interview with another startup company, and after six interviews and a take-home project I found myself getting the same generic rejection. The CEO went out of his way to tell me he didn't like my resume since I've had to hop around a little bit to stay emp…

So basically you wanted to have it easy - joining a company with a certain prestige and be over the recruitment process in 30 minutes or less.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by woooooo »

pfraze wrote: post #134
999900000999 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually did apply, The mere application takes hours upon hours, and for what a generic rejection email. This isn't the worst though, I recently went through an interview with another startup company, and after six interviews and a take-home project I found myself getting the same generic rejection. The CEO went out of his way to tell me he didn't like my resume since I've had to hop around a little bit to stay emp…

If you went through multiple rounds it likely means they were seriously considering you but ultimately they didn’t get to a yes. If it’s any comfort that means you did pretty well. The short stints on a resume is likely not the only reason you didn’t get to 100%, but unfortunately you should know that it’s seen as a pretty bad signal. The general expectation is 2 years minimum at a gig. If you have multiple short non…

If they heard from the CEO specifically, it was probably based on the CEO vibe checking the resume as a last step after passing the entire interview process. The CEO may have spent 15 minutes on it.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by SSLy »

cyberpunk wrote: post #155
jeffrallen wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you have ever struggled with a server whose bios won't netboot because there's a misconfiguration on the switch, or the Ethernet cable is not coded right for the speed of the server's card (because your vendor silently "upgraded" you to 25 Gbit because they were out of 10 Gbit cards), and then when it does boot, it is thermally throttled because it's tiny fans happen to be blowing in the one spot where your electr…

… Ancient jvm running under wine with webstart just to get to the remote console? ;) I do not miss those days.

webstart at least works if non-plugin. Flash not so much -- looking at vcflex.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by twoodfin »

zozbot234 wrote: post #38

I wonder how Oxide's basic value proposition changes with the very recent growth in rack-scale and multi-rack (datacenter-wide) compute for AI. Surely these other vendors have tech (particularly around network interconnect) that can be repurposed effectively for the more general private cloud workloads Oxide is focusing on.

Conversely, has Oxide discussed in depth how they see GPU compute?

I’m guessing for their current target market of existing enterprise software it doesn’t matter, but the ownership and economics stories are at least as compelling for matmul code.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by TimTheTinker »

treis wrote: post #156
wasmainiac wrote: post #6

Could someone explains to me what the secret is here? Apart from the fancy marketing, is it the full integration? The hardware? It took me a while to find an actual picture of one of the modules.

Companies spend an eye watering amount of money on AWS relative the underlying hardware cost. There's definitely a market for something like a mainframe that runs K8s, Postgres, Redis, and the like where you buy once and then run forever. I don't know if it's true or not but it seems like our AWS bill is something like paying the full purchase price of the underlying hardware every month.

AWS supplies a significant portion (was it something like 50%?) of Amazon's overall profits.
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