it was quite difficult yet easy to give it up...
choice : make noise, get paid : few lakhs..
and become a pig with pigs who fight for 'lakhs'...
the product - was half done...
it had hints of making a blockbuster...carry a small company on its own..
but its 'ownership' : stolen by a sensei : who could not 'hack' it...
and the 'boss' : oh he gave up engineering long ago : to make total illogical punjabi leverage based - "happy productive" environment...
top heavy : coz engineers are not really 'respecting' to the fossils
and all were fossils : all with 'know' of prop. sucky development..
with hierarchy of useless...
xoz 'research' was just a 'marketing logo'...
it was always about stuffing more useless with the doers...
$ man hours : have a flip side : they tend to bring out the outspoken, and outspoken are mostly useless, when it comes to engineering
hence a 'startup' of few 20 years
a service company with < 1k employees
acting as IT services company..
nowhere near the 'inspiration'...
but the reason is 90s leadership...and its perception of success :
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