{"id":251,"date":"2011-01-25T07:39:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2011-01-24T12:56:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T20:56:46","slug":"the-early-days-of-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/25\/the-early-days-of-vmware\/","title":{"rendered":"the early days of VMware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for more information, both internal and external, about VMware the company. \u00a0Today, I came across a post from an early VMware employee about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/VMware\/What-is-it-like-working-as-an-engineer-at-VMware\">what it&#8217;s like working as an engineer at VMware<\/a>. \u00a0The post explains some of what I&#8217;ve observed here. \u00a0It&#8217;s on Quora, a place where I didn&#8217;t expect to find such information, and certainly not with footnotes!<\/p>\n<p>I especially like that I&#8217;m seeing a lot of very forward-thinking work happening, explained here as a &#8220;willingness to tackle research problems&#8221;. \u00a0VMware seems willing to try things out and let the chips fall where they may. \u00a0I&#8217;m starting research on one of these areas soon. \u00a0And while I&#8217;m only a few weeks in, I see the people around me working reasonable hours, which is a significant (and significantly positive) change from what I&#8217;d become used to.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m sure that things have changed since the author of this post left the company, my observations say that several things have stayed the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for more information, both internal and external, about VMware the company. \u00a0Today, I came across a post from an early VMware employee about what it&#8217;s like working as an engineer at VMware. \u00a0The post explains some of what I&#8217;ve observed here. \u00a0It&#8217;s on Quora, a place where I didn&#8217;t expect to find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/25\/the-early-days-of-vmware\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the early days of VMware<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}