PocketScience/Weird Science

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2 total messages Started by Nathan Hill Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:00

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Author: Nathan Hill
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:00

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Just a bit of information for you on the way they do business.
PocketScience, Inc. asked me to find a Sr. Level Hardware Engineer for them.
I did so and they hired him.

This candidate had 3 offers on the table and decided to take PocketScience
because of their "promising future". He was with the company for 3 weeks and
they had a "reduction of management force". PocketScience let go of most of
their contractors and several management and senior level engineers.

PocketScience has refused to pay the search fee to me and my firm for this
Hardware engineer even though we performed 100% of the job we were asked to
do.

I think many things need to be looked at when the right hand of a company
does not know what they left hand is doing. It is said that PocketScience
does not have a money problem by some and by others it has been said they
needed to improve their bottom line for their investors.

No matter the reason, any company doing business like this is doomed for
failure.

Take it for what it's worth!

Re: PocketScience/Weird Science

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Author: Chris Croughton
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 00:00

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In article <7fsu5p$1pj$1@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>
           Topbiller@worldnet.att.net "Nathan Hill" wrote:

>I think many things need to be looked at when the right hand of a company
>does not know what they left hand is doing. It is said that PocketScience
>does not have a money problem by some and by others it has been said they
>needed to improve their bottom line for their investors.

This is true of most companies, I've found, especially large ones (and
even more in the GSM market).  The lower-level managers - team leaders,
project leaders etc. - who are the ones who actually get the work
organised, know they need more staff.  The middle managers let them have
more staff (contract or permanent).  Then the accountants get in on it and
decide to cut 'unnecessary' staff and get rid of them ('unnecessary' in
some cases meaning people who work on the OS and comms, because they don't
do anything which is directly billed to customers).

I could name at least three of my previous employers with this attitude,
all of whom ought to know better because /it happens a lot/, in some
cases the cycle takes less than 6 months.  It's a feature of the
industry...

Chris C

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