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Not sure why you’re being downvoted. He says in the article that Microsoft wanted to hire him to keep working on appget. He asked for an acqui-hire instead, and

Not sure why you’re being downvoted. He says in the article that Microsoft wanted to hire him to keep working on appget. He asked for an acqui-hire instead, and was told that’s not possible. He wanted more than Microsoft was willing to give.

iamcreasy 5y ago
Here is an excerpt from the article: 'After about a month of prolonged email back and forth, we came to the conclusion that the arrangement will be very similar to an acqui-hire...' It was a mutual decision.
- 908B64B197 5y ago
  But then : 'I was told that the acqui-hire process through BizDev would take a very long time. An alternative to speed up the process would be just to hire me with a “bonus” and then work on migrating the code ownership after the fact. I didn’t have any objections' For anyone who was involved in an acquisition, it's a polite way to say "we're not interested". And considering he describes his PM interview as "I met with four different people; three of the meetings were more like your typical interviews;" it sounds like he went through the typical hiring pipeline because an employee gave him a referral. Real acqui-hires are nothing like what he describes.
908B64B197 5y ago
> Not sure why you’re being downvoted I have no clue. It also seems to trip some throttling in HN's code. I have unapproved opinions I suppose? Maybe dang knows the reason. > He asked for an acqui-hire instead, and was told that’s not possible. The funniest thing are his grandiose claims that he "could definitely have obtained a patent" for his package manager. Despite NuGet being 10+ years old and the fact that earlier in the article he explicitly states that he wrote AppGet so that he could replicate the Linux experience on Windows [0]... That gives the reader an interesting insight on why he might have failed his interview. [0] https://medium.com/@keivan/the-day-appget-died-e9a5c96c8b22 https://medium.com/@keivan/the-day-appget-died-e9a5c96c8b22

iamcreasy 5y ago

Here is an excerpt from the article: 'After about a month of prolonged email back and forth, we came to the conclusion that the arrangement will be very similar to an acqui-hire...' It was a mutual decision.

908B64B197 5y ago
But then : 'I was told that the acqui-hire process through BizDev would take a very long time. An alternative to speed up the process would be just to hire me with a “bonus” and then work on migrating the code ownership after the fact. I didn’t have any objections' For anyone who was involved in an acquisition, it's a polite way to say "we're not interested". And considering he describes his PM interview as "I met with four different people; three of the meetings were more like your typical interviews;" it sounds like he went through the typical hiring pipeline because an employee gave him a referral. Real acqui-hires are nothing like what he describes.

908B64B197 5y ago

> Not sure why you’re being downvoted I have no clue. It also seems to trip some throttling in HN's code. I have unapproved opinions I suppose? Maybe dang knows the reason. > He asked for an acqui-hire instead, and was told that’s not possible. The funniest thing are his grandiose claims that he "could definitely have obtained a patent" for his package manager. Despite NuGet being 10+ years old and the fact that earlier in the article he explicitly states that he wrote AppGet so that he could replicate the Linux experience on Windows [0]... That gives the reader an interesting insight on why he might have failed his interview. [0] https://medium.com/@keivan/the-day-appget-died-e9a5c96c8b22 https://medium.com/@keivan/the-day-appget-died-e9a5c96c8b22