[draw_down]

The only thing they actually mention doing at the company during all that time was the union drive.

Did they create products? Features? Internal tools? Design guides/system? Any actual work? Or just agitating for a union that their coworkers clearly did not want?

[awhitty]

Saman worked on many things at Mapbox, most notably to me is the interface for Studio [0], which continues to be an impressive expression of a really advanced set of features for map design. He also explicitly mentioned a stint as an engineering manager at the company in the post- maybe you didn’t catch that? Or maybe you don’t consider management to be doing “actual work”? If you think the latter, maybe consider organizing at your own workplace?

[0] https://blog.mapbox.com/behind-mapbox-studios-new-look-874c1...

[incanus77]

Yes, major contributor who touched many parts of the company's core technology.

Source: I overlapped with them for the first 7 of those 12 years, back to the <20 employee days.