How are things at Docker after Solomon Hykes was fired last year? I might have an offer to join their customer success team in the East.
I'm told Hykes is no longer active what I heard. No CTO, no CPO, no Ux team. Hykes just another cog on the board.
Whoa; I did not know that. I guess they hardly made much money and they are looking to pivot.
They're selling Kubernetes now. 😂
Swarm took a swim
Sorta like how Cloudera is selling YARN, Spark, Kafka huh?! 😂😂😂
Jokes aside; how are you folks doing? I have always been made to believe in Mesosphere that Docker hardly makes much revenue. I find that hard to believe though. Is it true? We can chat over PM too.
Wait, how does mesosphere make money? Isn't K8s replacing DC\OS elsewhere as well?
Docker, Mesosphere, Openshift. All have great potential. Their Ux is horrible. Any designers out here?
From what I’ve seen, Docker’s UX team has only 2 excellent designers - The rest are average at best, which is not good enough when you’re talking about multiple complex enterprise products being worked on simultaneously. In addition, there has historically been a fragmented leadership structure that translates to a tremendous lack of focus across the entire company. What’s positive is that things are changing - Our new CEO is ‘all-in’ and his impact is already undeniable. Over 50% of ‘projects’ within the company have been cut/consolidated and it’s beginning to feel like we’re all working towards the same goal. Revenues are at record highs and it’s prob the first time in 2 years that I’d recommend it as a company worth considering.
I came on site for 'lunch'. 4/5 desks were empty considering 3 floors. I declined the offer. Have too many scars from early Cloudera days to make think that sullen places have a future. When good people start leaving that's a red flag.
True. It should be noted that Docker is aggressively expanding in Seattle, so while SF is HQ, it likely will not see much in the way of new hires (even for replacements)
Thanks for the insights. Wow just two functional designers? Docker poached a very talented Ux manager from us last year, his old team would love to have him back. If he's around still ship him back to us 😀
Hudxing, yes the last guy was really a great mentor and looked out for everyone in the team. There's a new manager for the same team and this guy is a shit show from hell.
From what we saw he had a VP who didn't understand design. Even with that stuff the mgr helped different engg and pms come together, support design work, and ship stuff. We want him back! Hope he's on Blind 😉
Can docker sell its enterprise version? do enterprises need this?
Yes - can’t mention numbers here but Q-over-Q and Y-over-Y revenue (both product and services) growth is insane
Solomon was (is) an amazing technologist and speaker, but is no product/engineering leader. He was more of a bottleneck in shipping product. The current product leadership (although not perfect) is much better. We are finally shipping stuff that people will buy, not just giving stuff away for free. The challenge with the team is balancing making $$$ with innovating, and it’s not an easy thing
Everyone left.
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You meant the CEO right. Not Solomon?