[burnt-resistor]

Before 2016, I was an outside consultant working with some long-term TCS IT and dev staff at a Valley client company that was just acquired by HP. (IIRC, HP then preferred Perot Systems as a staffing vendor.) TCS folks were mostly living extremely frugally in the SF Bay Area at the time.

Sometime around there, I consulted for Motorola Mobility where they hired contractors around the world in Eastern Europe and SE Asia. That gig came to a screeching halt after the head of that department expressed racist remarks about remote people in my presence and so they ghosted me because they just assumed I would talk to their HR or take legal action; I was broke then and couldn't do anything about it except learn the lesson that a lot of corporate types really don't give a fuck about being decent or professional.

[dilyevsky]

Motorola Mobility was purchased by Google in 2012 and gutted that same year

[burnt-resistor]

Yes, Captain Obvious. ;) It was before... I can't tell how much before without looking. Looking, it was Autumn 2009.

They included some ex-DANGER people, their architects were big design upfront-oriented rather than anything remotely agile, and it seemed like a stress pressure-cooker. Oh, and a large fraction of product social functionality of those generation of quasi-smartphones were entirely server-side running on a fleet of Motorola's CentOS boxes. They issued workers FireWire-based external backup drives, which I thought was bonkers.

tl;dr: Good riddance to them.

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