Pure Storage

There are smart and nice people in engineering, and it is a really good, exciting product.

Pure used to be such a great company. But in the past few years, management got overtaken by your typical corporate drones who care only about politics and the bottom number on the spreadsheet for the next quarter. What used to be an engineering-driven company is now a run-of-the-mill, dull corp. Smart people are leaving for better opportunities, and others are just waiting for their stocks to vest. Sooner or later, the quality of the product will reflect that.

One of the reasons that I joined Pure was hearing Coz at a talk in Prague about seven years ago. What stuck with me the most was his answer to the question "What do you fear most in the future?". He said that the most he fears is that we will not be able to hire and keep smart people. Well, Coz, here we are...