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To be fair, the company was hemorrhaging money at the time. The main "office" building, where I worked, was actually a run down warehouse in the middle of nowhe

To be fair, the company was hemorrhaging money at the time. The main "office" building, where I worked, was actually a run down warehouse in the middle of nowhere. Compare the following two pictures, from 2009 [1] and from 2017 [2]. [1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Imagination+Technologies/@51.7074135,-0.4395362,3a,75y,291.35h,83.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJ9yZ1Y08i0yJeGnT0Nyzqg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m14!1m6!3m5!1s0x487641b9b38b9ff3:0x995b248a5de90764!2sImagination+Technologies!8m2!3d51.7081203!4d-0.4404734!3m6!1s0x487641b9b38b9ff3:0x995b248a5de90764!8m2!3d51.7081203!4d-0.4404734!14m1!1BCgIgARICCAI https://www.google.com/maps/place/Imagination+Technologies/@... [2] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Imagination+Technologies/@51.7074025,-0.4395749,3a,75y,299.68h,94.51t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1siY9RPqBis7rT8C8PBZD2vA!2e0!5s20170501T000000!7i13312!8i6656!4m14!1m6!3m5!1s0x487641b9b38b9ff3:0x995b248a5de90764!2sImagination+Technologies!8m2!3d51.7081203!4d-0.4404734!3m6!1s0x487641b9b38b9ff3:0x995b248a5de90764!8m2!3d51.7081203!4d-0.4404734!14m1!1BCgIgARICCAI https://www.google.com/maps/place/Imagination+Technologies/@...

ChuckNorris89 5y ago
>The main "office" building, where I worked, was actually a run down warehouse in the middle of nowhere. That's nothing, I used to work for one of Europe's biggest semi companies and some of our offices were made of shipping containers lol. IIRC even the mighty Intel had to completely overhaul their offices in 200? after some Jay Lenno visit embarrassed them for looking like the '80's. Why is it that SW companies pride themselves with nice offices while semi/HW companies have some run down trailer park offices and see no issue with that?
- david-gpu 5y ago
  > Why is it that SW companies pride themselves with nice offices while semi/HW companies have some run down trailer park offices and see no issue with that? I haven't noticed that problem in North America: Qualcomm, AMD and NVidia all have nice campuses.
  - ChuckNorris89 5y ago
    Well they can afford it.
    - david-gpu 5y ago
      Yeah, I think it boils down to that.
- wdb 5y ago
  Still better than working at a big semiconductor as a contractor and be expected to work from basically the storage room
- rasz 5y ago
  >I used to work for one of Europe's biggest semi companies and some of our offices were made of shipping containers lol. ASML? They did start in something that looks like a bunch of shipping container slapped together https://twitter.com/trungtphan/status/1429464918755930115 https://twitter.com/trungtphan/status/1429464918755930115
  - ChuckNorris89 5y ago
    Nope, a fabless semi company.
Simon_Fe 5y ago
I can see my car!
- david-gpu 5y ago
  Simon Fenney!? I hope all is well around you.

ChuckNorris89 5y ago

>The main "office" building, where I worked, was actually a run down warehouse in the middle of nowhere. That's nothing, I used to work for one of Europe's biggest semi companies and some of our offices were made of shipping containers lol. IIRC even the mighty Intel had to completely overhaul their offices in 200? after some Jay Lenno visit embarrassed them for looking like the '80's. Why is it that SW companies pride themselves with nice offices while semi/HW companies have some run down trailer park offices and see no issue with that?

david-gpu 5y ago
> Why is it that SW companies pride themselves with nice offices while semi/HW companies have some run down trailer park offices and see no issue with that? I haven't noticed that problem in North America: Qualcomm, AMD and NVidia all have nice campuses.
- ChuckNorris89 5y ago
  Well they can afford it.
  - david-gpu 5y ago
    Yeah, I think it boils down to that.
wdb 5y ago
Still better than working at a big semiconductor as a contractor and be expected to work from basically the storage room
rasz 5y ago
>I used to work for one of Europe's biggest semi companies and some of our offices were made of shipping containers lol. ASML? They did start in something that looks like a bunch of shipping container slapped together https://twitter.com/trungtphan/status/1429464918755930115 https://twitter.com/trungtphan/status/1429464918755930115
- ChuckNorris89 5y ago
  Nope, a fabless semi company.

Simon_Fe 5y ago

I can see my car!

david-gpu 5y ago
Simon Fenney!? I hope all is well around you.