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Bad reputations don't hurt anyone in this business. Up until the 90's no other company had a bully reputation as bad as IBM (e.g.: their Hollerith machines were
by diego_moita 16y ago
Bad reputations don't hurt anyone in this business. Up until the 90's no other company had a bully reputation as bad as IBM (e.g.: their Hollerith machines were used by Hitler to control who was going to the gas chambers).
But still, no other company in the world has attracted so many bright minds (Jon Von Neuman, John Backus, Ted Cobb, etc), got so many Nobel prizes or made so many important technological achievements.
- ig1 16y agoIn the past IBM, AT&T Labs, and now Google all had the huge advantages in being at the cutting edge of research which allowed them to attract talent. If you want to see a company dying because it can't hire good developers because of it's reputation look at Nokia.