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I also wonder how long of a lasting impact he's even had on his founded companies. Trello is obviously absorbed into the Atlassian blob, Stack Overflow's curren
by Macha 3y ago
I also wonder how long of a lasting impact he's even had on his founded companies. Trello is obviously absorbed into the Atlassian blob, Stack Overflow's current owners are clearly in the extraction phase, and while Fog Creek always seemed a cool place to work, my understanding is its current incarnation of Glitch is just your typical mid-sized tech co.
- diggan 3y ago> Fog Creek always seemed a cool place to work, my understanding is its current incarnation of Glitch is just your typical mid-sized tech co. I don't know neither Fog Creek or Glitch, but what you're writing sounds like you're putting a negative spin on it. To me it sounds wonderful that it's not yet another startup/company that basically boils down to "take over the world with VC funding or die trying".
- Macha 3y agoI don't even mean in terms of the product. Their old main product was a bug tracker and their current iteration is a low code dev product. I mean Fog Creek used to be a strong proponent of developer facing decisions like private offices for developers, and (back when it was a novelty) spending time easy onboarding and builds.
- FireBeyond 3y ago> I mean Fog Creek used to be a strong proponent of developer facing decisions like private offices for developers People like to rag on MSFT, but when I was there (around mid 2000s), this was very much the norm. Meeting rooms and shared spaces, but generally every engineer had their own office (at least in my BU).
- rmccue 3y ago> my understanding is its current incarnation of Glitch is just your typical mid-sized tech co Glitch was acquired by Fastly, so it's not a fully independent mid-sized tech co, but it does seem to be doing well and seems reasonably independent still.
- ahartmetz 3y agoI have heard from someone who tried it that FogBugz, Fog Creek's main (only?) product, wasn't very good.