ex_ubiquiti

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by ex_ubiquiti 5y ago
> You assume anyone except the hacker knew anything about AWS. There were a lot of smart and experienced people at Ubiquiti when I worked there. Nick Sharp manipulated his way into total control over everything and wouldn't let anyo
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by ex_ubiquiti 5y ago
> Also, even though they may have had read access, not many knew it existed. But it wasn't super hard to find (I stumbled across it basically). We didn't have read access until Nick Sharp and his team took over GitHub permissio
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by ex_ubiquiti 5y ago
> For reference, I spent a year (mid-2018 to mid-2019) running the UniFi Network team and worked with Nick during that time. Nick's whole strategy was to find a problem, exaggerate it as much as he could get away with, and then offe
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by ex_ubiquiti 5y ago
Ex-Ubiquiti employee here. Nick Sharp wasn't just a senior software engineer. He was the Cloud Lead and ran the whole cloud team. His LinkedIn profile will confirm it. This is why he had access to everything. Nick had his hands in ever
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by ex_ubiquiti 6y ago
I worked there and I didn't even understand why we had to force cloud logins on Dream Machine. In the early days we were all about letting people run their own controller hardware and not requiring cloud logins. No one could ever tel
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by ex_ubiquiti 6y ago
Several of us from the UniFi team went to competitors but we're focused more on enterprise. We always thought MikroTik was one of the biggest competitors for low cost equipment. Our main advantage was the UBNT community and having fam
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by ex_ubiquiti 6y ago
There was a lot of infighting and turf wars when I finally quit. I'm not even surprised that this latest turf war spilled into the news.
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by ex_ubiquiti 6y ago
The gear is locked down to UniFi firmware. Some of us wanted to open it up to alternatives like OpenWRT but that wasn't an option for us.
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by ex_ubiquiti 6y ago
Is that going to the trace service? There was a falling out between teams while I was there because the cloud team wanted to collect stats from APs even when users disabled analytics in the UI. It was so bad that some of the developers and
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by ex_ubiquiti 6y ago
He was in charge of cloud when he "found" a way to forge Ubiquiti SSO logins for any user using his root access to the SSO signing secrets. In the Krebs article the whistleblower calls out forging SSO logins as one of the things t
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by ex_ubiquiti 6y ago
> they’re definitely moving in a little bit of a different direction then where many of us would hope it pains me to say this because I was there for the UniFi glory days: The old Ubiquiti is dead and gone. Almost everyone I know quit.
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by ex_ubiquiti 6y ago
> There was no company wide communication, and all communication channels were made private I couldn't understand why the ex-Amazon cloud lead was also in charge of Slack. When he made all channels private and put a Slackbot in eve
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by ex_ubiquiti 6y ago
Most of the US leadership and many of the US employees quit in recent years. The CEO wanted to focus on international offices where employees were cheaper. It was backfiring while I was there and I heard it only got worse after I left. Sa
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by ex_ubiquiti 6y ago
I remember the cloud lead they hired out of Amazon was as toxic as they come. If he's still in charge I can see him blaming his own team members. The culture at Ubiquiti collapsed in my last year there. The company was unrecognizable
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by ex_ubiquiti 6y ago
The early days at Ubiquiti were good. I worked with a lot of good engineers and we shipped good work. The decline is a recent problem. > How the brand hasn't become toxic already is a mystery to me, yet look at the stock price track
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by ex_ubiquiti 6y ago
I worked at Ubiquiti while you were there. I can confirm that the company was going downhill fast. The US offices were starting to feel empty because so many people were leaving the company. Only place I've ever worked where engineers
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by ex_ubiquiti 6y ago
The directors and VPs quit, also.
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by ex_ubiquiti 6y ago
Yes! The move to low cost countries is confusing because the company has more than enough profits to pay high wages. I think the company wanted offices in cheaper countries because it was easier to convince the employees to accept the abuse
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by ex_ubiquiti 6y ago
Some of the best engineers I worked with were in non-US offices. They were also smart enough to leave. You cut my quote short of the important part which was "and employees complained less about constant crunch mode". It is easier
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by ex_ubiquiti 6y ago
Ubiquiti had a steady exodus of engineers in the past few years. It's a very different company now compared to the glory days of UniFi.
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by ex_ubiquiti 6y ago
As a former Ubiquiti employee, I'm sad to watch the slow decline of the company. There was a steady exodus of engineering talent through 2020. The CEO was focused on moving to countries where engineering was cheaper and employees compl