Ego and Engineers

Excerpts from The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams Ego-wise, two things are important to engineers: a) how smart they are, b) how many cool devices they own. The fastest way to get an engineer to solve a problem is to declare that the problem is unsolvable. No engineer can walk away from an unsolvable problem […]

New Office pictures

I have posted a few pictures of the new office. Starting from the early days – how it was when we saw the place, how we opened up the whole structure and what we built finally.

New office setup is almost done!

It takes 80% of the time to get the last 20% sorted out! The whole systems team has been busy getting everything up in the new office for more than a week now. We got the basic systems – servers, thin clients, internet etc – up in about 50 hours. But the smaller things are […]

Chocolates day, New office work

We celebrated chocolates day in Magnet today. It was quite a blast. When HR emailed people about it on Tuesday, waves started. Here’s what Sarita said: Hello Everyone, Let’s celebrate Chocolate Day this Friday 25th August 2006, Kitkat for “Friends” Dairy Milk for “Best Friend” Eclairs for “Colleagues” — Regards, Sarita R.Hegde HR Executive Magnet […]