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I spoke with old timers at Cray and they were all shocked by the laxs work ethic at SGI: people coming back from months of paid vacation and not being sure it t
by frozenport 12y ago
I spoke with old timers at Cray and they were all shocked by the laxs work ethic at SGI: people coming back from months of paid vacation and not being sure it they worked there anymore.
- ghshephard 12y agoCould that be after Sabbatical? SGI had a six week sabbatical after 4 years of work.
- i_am_ralpht 12y agoThe Cray guys had their own funny culture as well, though. Cray was incredibly process-based, whereas SGI was entirely seat-of-the-pants product driven. Merging those two cultures was incredibly painful; ultimately the Cray guys won out and SGI became process driven[1]. There's a really twisted article in Wired after Cray got spun out where they complained about all the money they got from SGI because it came with sandals and pets-at-work-allowed rules. From the Cray culture (and some of the Cray employees) we got the IRIX release train, where we'd ship a new QA'd release every quarter. If a feature wasn't ready it just got pushed out to the next release, no big deal (sometimes this didn't work out; bizarrely one of the biggest screwups came from the CXFS guys who were working in the old Cray campus in Eagan, MN). [1]: Though as I read Zero to One it's interesting to see Theil's perspective on process-vs-product outlook. Definitely the product-driven SGI was the more optimistic one.