Almost no activity on this page, no one reports anything. One would thought it's business as usual at Wind River Sys.
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They will soon enough!
Offer letters from Intel starting to come in?
There will be integration with Intel, only the strong survives! Good luck everyone!
@7lua - Big blue is still going to integrate you after what happened with McAfee?
Actually, he/she sounds like someone just trying to make their way in the world. Adjusting from school to the workplace can be tough. At least it was for me some 30 years ago.
If you'd like to see a real idiot, try looking in the mirror. Insecurities? Posting from a competitor? THAT sounds like insecurity to me.
Have a great day!
I laugh at all of you. I am from a competitor and just messing with this new hire. He's an idiot and sounds threatened by anyone with a few years of experience. I love posting here to get a reaction and to see what your response will be. Thank you for the entertainment. But most of all, thank you for being such an easy company to beat.
I go back to what I posted on another thread here earlier this year: everyone has something to contribute in every workplace. Both experienced and new people offer different perspectives, as long as we are all open to hearing them. That's healthy.
Chastising a younger employee for his/her economic situation in an insulting manner is not. Neither is poking fun at an older employee for an issue, or issues, in his/her life that may present challenges.
Be kind. Is it really that hard?
i go back to this - Intel owns WRS. They will decide our fate. If they say OS goes away or is a legacy product, WRS is done, like it or not.
No, I don't live in my parents' basement. I put myself through school with no student loans. The next time you and the other old fogeys are on another extended vacation at the country club or pub lamenting over your latest divorce, your cheating husband or kids with drug problems, try remembering that. Maybe all of you can Facebook all that BS or post about what wonderful lives you're leading while trying to keep up with the Jonses, just realize that there's lots of hungry people like me out there that will work like there is no tomorrow to get things done and get ahead.
To the new guy who keeps posting here.
What does Wind River have to offer if not an OS?
Your are blindly following a doomed narrative.
I can tell you do not work in sales. Probably marketing or some other function which does not produce anything or have any accountability. You certainly do not have contact with Wind River customers unless they are the mythical paying IoT customers.
How is Wind River going to monetize IoT? How will you pay off your college loans and move out of your parents house?
To the old fogey that posted here. I'm cutting and pasting a review from glass door. I had nothing to do with the review, but it sums up things quite nicely.
"need to revamp mid to senior management"
Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
Doesn't Recommend
Negative Outlook
I worked at Wind River full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
pay and benefits are in par with industrial average
Cons
mid to senior management left over from the pure OS days have to be let go fast. Not only do they don't have the required knowledge and attitude for the new lines of business such as cloud and IoT, they're indeed show stoppers for those who really want to pull ahead and know the ropes. These deadwoods are no more than dispatchers, who cling to their authorities and still demand the kind of respect they never deserve in the first place.
Advice to Management
institute a metric system to better monitor mid to senior management performance by making them measurable and transparent.
Thank you for your support. There's lots of us here at Wind River Way that feel the same way. It's time to say out with the old and in with the new. I'm hoping the integration puts some dead weight out to pasture.
WR just keeps recycling the same VP's slap a new title...and all of a sudden they'll turn things around (old fogeys) Just keep platjng same movie over and ober. WR needs young minds who thinks outside the box and well versed in the cloud business!
...and as far as Jim goes, he'll land in his feet. Will you or the rest of the old fogeys? Or will you float down the river of denial?
Denial is not a river in Egypt.
"If Wind River is to do nothing more than try to help Intel sell CPUs, either they change how they measure success or we are doomed."
Maybe you didn't get the word, Intel owns WRS. Get it? Yes, that is why we are going to exist. The old embedded OS and development tools will be given away for next to nothing, if they aren't for free.
You old timers are still in denial.
And why has this place not made money for the last several years?
How many VPs does this place have? The only VP person who was cut was one of the best people we had.
We waste money on ridiculous new products. How is App Cloud going to make Wind River any revenue? Is the person who came up with that idea still here? In our Town Hall meeting JD basically said only one product line made any money but how much money are we investing in that product?
If Wind River is to do nothing more than try to help Intel sell CPUs, either they change how they measure success or we are doomed.
Let me rephrase- the longer term employees left here have no added value.
Yet this place hasn't made a whole heckuva a lot of money in some time and the really capable people like Deliman were run off.
I don't think the longer term employees have really added any value or leadership to this place. Your glory days have passed you by.
Current Wind River employee here...
I laugh at some of these posts where the authors talk about how bad long term employees are. I've been at Wind River over 10 years and I cannot think of anything of value brought to us by 'new' or 'young' employees. Well, maybe Test Management, and we know how well that went.
Fact is, Wind River would have been gone a long time ago if not for the solid seasoned teams in the field who kept Wind River's core customers with Wind River while Wind River tried to be a 'networking' company or a 'device management' company. The new ideas being cast upon Wind River by Intel are not going to yield revenue before 2018 if they ever produce revenue at all. The only reason people still have jobs at Wind River is because all of the people who still talk about Operating Systems are still here.
Tell me one idea brought in by someone new that actually made money?
Unfortunately, that's what business as usual have devolved into here at Wind River Way. Makes me sad on a daily basis.
Unfortunately, lots of people here are. Most of them are the longer term employees that should have left long ago.
Milking it 'till the end huh?
It is business as usual and it is great. I find Alameda is the perfect job hunting location. I can work on finding my next job all day and nobody notices. I am closed off in my office (not in a cube where others might hear me). I never see my boss. I have about 2 hours of work a day which I finish before 11 and spend the rest of the day doing things for myself. I love this place!
Dead WR employees walking!
You can believe that, and it may happen, granted, could happen...or, you can stay positive and, even if the worst happens here, it'll be less stressful and less baggage to take elsewhere if you have to move on. Your choice entirely.
For now...it'll get ugly soon enough!
It is, actually, business at usually here in lovely Alameda.