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To put icing on the cake, Google recruiters kept calling me for FIVE FUCKING YEARS for the same job... I had to finally tell them I had gone through three mont

To put icing on the cake, Google recruiters kept calling me for FIVE FUCKING YEARS for the same job... I had to finally tell them I had gone through three months of panel interviews, Ive designed parts of your data centers, video studio and have built every salesforce office in the US at that point, and designed shit for other FAAN companies so give me the damn job or lose my damn number. They stopped calling me for the job after that. (it was for a network PM under Raligh Mann, who was the ILM CIO before he went on to google... after I designed the DC for Lucas' Presidio campus. Also fun fact, I found out Goog was designing their own motherboards at the time - and I happened to see one when visiting a friend on-site, and saw one under his desk and said hey whats this? and he said "uh, you werent supposed to see that - lets go!" - This was before it was public that both Goog and FB were designing their own DC hardware... Some dope engineering though.

samstave 4y ago
Oh, and I have posted this here before, when I was a design eng for ILM/Lucas/Lucas Arts... I was asked "when will you be able to deliver 'Power Over Fiber' (This was a mtg with all of the top execs at Cisco, and All tops at ILM.. and I murdered this this guy (in a polite way) but I pissed my pants on the drive back from Bigrock about how funny that was... Yes, that was me sitting in a design mtg with Cisco CTO and the CTO of Lucas Arts asked me to provide that... Ill leave it there... (Just for context, the design req was "fiber to every desktop such that the workstations will be render nodes when workers leave... but they wanted Power Over Fiber" So, if you know how, there is a dude with 15 billion dollars waiting for your call,.... and he has the best property in the US.
- jmalicki 4y ago
  It is a thing! https://www.fiberopticlink.com/product/fiber-optic-isolation-systems/power-solutions-for-fiber-optic-isolation-systems/power-over-fiber-system-pof/ https://www.fiberopticlink.com/product/fiber-optic-isolation... (I mean, solar panels are a thing, so turning light into power is definitely possible, and these things do exist.. I just doubt they have the economics the people in that room desired)

samstave 4y ago

Oh, and I have posted this here before, when I was a design eng for ILM/Lucas/Lucas Arts... I was asked "when will you be able to deliver 'Power Over Fiber' (This was a mtg with all of the top execs at Cisco, and All tops at ILM.. and I murdered this this guy (in a polite way) but I pissed my pants on the drive back from Bigrock about how funny that was... Yes, that was me sitting in a design mtg with Cisco CTO and the CTO of Lucas Arts asked me to provide that... Ill leave it there... (Just for context, the design req was "fiber to every desktop such that the workstations will be render nodes when workers leave... but they wanted Power Over Fiber" So, if you know how, there is a dude with 15 billion dollars waiting for your call,.... and he has the best property in the US.

jmalicki 4y ago
It is a thing! https://www.fiberopticlink.com/product/fiber-optic-isolation-systems/power-solutions-for-fiber-optic-isolation-systems/power-over-fiber-system-pof/ https://www.fiberopticlink.com/product/fiber-optic-isolation... (I mean, solar panels are a thing, so turning light into power is definitely possible, and these things do exist.. I just doubt they have the economics the people in that room desired)