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>The main "office" building, where I worked, was actually a run down warehouse in the middle of nowhere.

That's nothing, I used to work for one of Europe's biggest semi companies and some of our offices were made of shipping containers lol.

IIRC even the mighty Intel had to completely overhaul their offices in 200? after some Jay Lenno visit embarrassed them for looking like the '80's.

Why is it that SW companies pride themselves with nice offices while semi/HW companies have some run down trailer park offices and see no issue with that?



> Why is it that SW companies pride themselves with nice offices while semi/HW companies have some run down trailer park offices and see no issue with that?

I haven't noticed that problem in North America: Qualcomm, AMD and NVidia all have nice campuses.


Well they can afford it.


Yeah, I think it boils down to that.


>I used to work for one of Europe's biggest semi companies and some of our offices were made of shipping containers lol.

ASML? They did start in something that looks like a bunch of shipping container slapped together https://twitter.com/trungtphan/status/1429464918755930115


Nope, a fabless semi company.


Still better than working at a big semiconductor as a contractor and be expected to work from basically the storage room




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