I worked at Autonomy in the 90's, back when there were a handful of engineers crammed in one room in St John's Innovation Center. It was a lot of fun and a very

I worked at Autonomy in the 90's, back when there were a handful of engineers crammed in one room in St John's Innovation Center. It was a lot of fun and a very interesting learning experience. But I quit, because they wanted me to lie to customers all the time and I wasn't comfortable with that. A typical day in the life: fly to a dotcom with more money than sense, install software. Discover sales guy advertised it to have functionality it absolutely doesn't have. Claim I must have done something wrong and I needed to check with "more senior" engineers. Go back to hotel and overnight hack together some approximation of what had been sold. I can't say whether particular allegations of accounting fraud are true, and startups are not exactly famous for truth in advertising, but that was the culture from the very earliest days.