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Aye, the sad saga of the name continues. My first job after college was working on data visualization software at SGI in Mountain View. Today, these buildings
by davepeck 10y ago
Aye, the sad saga of the name continues.
My first job after college was working on data visualization software at SGI in Mountain View. Today, these buildings serve as Google's headquarters.
For me, SGI was a dream job at a dream company!
Disruption interrupted that particular dream, it would seem.
- pm90 10y agoGoogle is the dream job of a lot of people now :).
- iokevins 10y agoSame feeling, here. In 1998, I interned in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, working for SGI acquisition, "Cray Research, a Silicon Graphics Company". From 2000-2005, I worked in Sacramento, California, for HP, in a division which would later get split off into HPE.
- bluedino 10y agoI wanted to work at Atari. They went out of business. I wanted to work at DEC. They went out of business. I wanted to work at SGI. They went out of business.
- thanatropism 10y agoWhere do you want to work now?
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- salgernon 10y agoI know quite a few people that have pretty much stayed working in exactly those same buildings for 25+ years. Same window, same view, same job, new business cards. Hazy memories: electropaint; doing some graphics with my housemate after a grateful dead concert. (I seem to recall playing with the water worm from "The Abyss" and its texture map having been the interior of The Tied House from downtown mountain view.)
- pkaye 10y agoWhen I graduated in 1995, HP and SGI were the dream job companies. Over the years as their fortunes started fading, I would see them slowly consolidate. SGI went down the progressively smaller offices over the next two decades. I think an SGI site in Mountain View are now used by Google HQ and another HP site down by Cupertino will soon by Apple HQ. Maybe there is a legacy being passed through each respectively ;)