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My longest gig was eleven years, at WEITEK Corporation, one of the original
fabless semiconductor companies. This was one of those companies were you
could get all the variety you could handle just by staying in one place.
WEITEK had some really high-caliber people. When the company started taking
on water and people ran for the lifeboats, they rowed off to better things.
A lot of them are CEO's and Vice Presidents now. One woman who started off
at WEITEK doing desktop publishing as a summer job became a Vice President
at Transmeta and was Linus Torvald's boss!
Knowing such people has been very good for my tech writing business, as you
can imagine, but it's also interesting to watch the old gang go on to newer
and cooler technologies and climb the corporate ladder, often in unexpected
directions. Though WEITEK was a great company, it was small and offered
relatively little opportunity for promotion, so the breadth of people's
abilities and ambitions couldn't be fully expressed there, and often came as
a surprise.
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