While the news of BlackBerry laying off employees always tends to make a lot of noise, hardly anyone mentions when they go on hiring sprees. So, let's go ahead and change that up a bit. As announced on their job listings portal, BlackBerry will be hosting a Bay Area networking event on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016 seeking to hire some new employees at all levels from new graduates to director level.
BlackBerry Technology Solutions
- Strategic Alliance Manager
- Business Development Manager
Global Sales & Marketing
- Senior Enterprise Account Manager
- Channel Account Manager
- Territory Account Manager
- Customer Success Marketing Manager
- Product Marketing Specialist (New Grad opportunity)
Enterprise Products
- Systems Software Engineer
- Senior Software Test Engineer
- User Experience Designer
- Senior Network Engineer
- Information Security Analyst
- Senior SQL Server Engineer
- Principal Java Server Engineer
These roles are located in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area at BlackBerry (Pleasanton), AtHoc (San Mateo), and Good Technology (Sunnyvale) in a variety of functional areas including: Sales, Marketing, Software Development, Quality Assurance, Operations, IT, and Professional Services. The upcoming networking event will include keynote speeches from our senior leadership team as well as demonstrations on current and upcoming products. If you are interested in joining us, please apply directly to this position. To provide a snapshot of current positions that are available, please see the list below.
If you're interested in attending, have more questions or want to apply you can visit BlackBerry's online job portal for the full details as well as contact info should you have any questions that cannot be answered through the portal.
Visit the BlackBerry job portal
Via: BlackBerrys.ru
Reader comments
BlackBerry hosting networking event seeking new employees at all levels
These new hirees should get their contracts with a fair bit of warning :
"Job security = None"
"Career prospects = nonexistent"
"Future at the company...sorry, company's future= depends on when Ms. Swan decides to bail out...
Actually...what it the point...
Cartman says: Nothing Due To Censorship
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Would they hire the first transgender blackberry user (hey alicia)
Jé Be....Here But Gone...
I bet they're a great company to work for. Layoffs happen in any and every company but the pay is probably good enough for you to save for a rainy day or days.
My Z10 is better than yours!
Long live #blackberry!
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Bb10 please
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> Product Marketing Specialist (New Grad opportunity)
Well that explains the new BlackBerry look and campaign...
Ofcourse they are hosting it in the states.... OF COURSE.
I have dreamed for an event like this..... guess I will just see if the put up canada postings and apply the boring and unsuccessful way QQ
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Thanks Bla1ze, I thought about it and then sent it my resume - could be great or at least an interesting interview experience. Is there any chance that anyone knows someone at BB who can get resumes looked at because we came through Crackberry / the fanbase? They asked how I found out about the openings and I chose 'other'.
I love you guys!
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After laying off about 200.
CA Governor on Passport SE
I wish I can apply for the sales job, I'm a salesman 3 years working in this domain and a SUPER DUPER HUGE fan of Blackberry... but I live in lebanon in the middle east :(
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Send them a resume, make some friends on LinkedIn, chase them a bit and see what happens. Maybe you have to move countries but maybe maybe maybe. If you want it I say invest a little time in chasing them, ya?
I don't care about moving countries... but I'm afraid they won't accept people from other countries
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Is there going to be an opening for CEO? I might show up with my résumé and tell them I want to apply for the position of CEO.
You and the rest of the armchair CEOs on this site should.
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At this point, I'd take virtually any armchair CEO still on this site over John Chen.
There goes the Canadian jobs in Waterloo.
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@maranr...Yeah,pretty slick ...and I wonder if their UK acquisition could be considered as R&D,considering those 40 Hackers are constantly researching ways to improve a clients best interest. :-) CDN Tax Credits?
Hire some marketing gurus and start marketing the best OS in the world.
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New people, new ideas, new BlackBerry. Go BlackBerry!
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WTF do you all expect. Think of HW like possible cancer diagnosis back in 2008/2009. Ignored first and then instead of proper treatment (Android), wasting time, money and resources on experimental treatment (BB10) and then accepting that proper treatment was better idea but now it's too late to save yourself. Oncologist (Chen) says may be possible to survive but you may lose body part. Why complain about oncologist saving your life?
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So what - it will not provide me new BBOS phones. Will be moving to Ubuntu or Sailfish when I finally give up on my beloved Passport. Heck, just got laughed out of Canada. Every time I pulled my phone out and set it on the table the Canadians laughed. Even the border guard laughed and said I must be of no danger as I use a BB.
Based on your selection of future OS, I'd speculate your reasons for being ridiculed are far greater and more serious than just your BlackBerry.
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I like BB10 for the way it operates. I am an independent soul. Do not like the way Android operates and tries to force you to be part of the flock, same for windows and Apple. I am intelligent enough to make my decisions and take responsibility for them (unlike many). For many years I have stated that BB10 should go the way of convergence. Blend was a half - hearted attempt. I own quite a bit of BB stock and hope for its success. I just feel abandoned as a small business consumer.
That being said, I do beta testing for my CAD software and do not have a problem with a developing OS, I understand limitations, issues, etc. I do not like being kept in the dark, mushrooms are for eating.
Really? There are so many passports in Toronto, I'm sure it's seen quite often around the border too.
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Just, thanks.
They laid off too many that the company can't operate properly.
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Surely this is good news.
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Not the sort of thing you'd expect from a company that so many believe has one foot in the grave!
GO BlackBerry!
Q10 (SQN100-3 : 10.3.2.158), Passport (SQW-100 : 10.3.1.1779)
You are right, BLA1ZE, about the way the hype tends to go. Thanks for sharing this.
I've always wondered about life in the Bay Area.....hmmmmmm. ☺
The Bay Area is totally overrated and no fun in my eyes - I left to move home. As an Italian friend of mine said to me, 'why the **** would you want to live here when you could live in Canada? I've visited and Canada was a paradise except for the weather. Here I make over 100K and I can't save any money really with prices, crime, American aggression, two weeks holiday...'. I'm a dual citizen raised in the US and I agreed.
Still working for the company I both love and hate is a really interesting idea..... :)
I guess you go both ways!
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Yeah, way too expensive. How did you get dual citizenship? I'm an American citizen originally from Vermont and have some family in Canada and used to go up to Quebec all the time. I've been living in the Bay Area myself for the past couple years and also make over the 6 figure mark but how is it I still feel poor?!? The average home cost in SF is over a million dollars, and the surrounding 7 counties the average home sold is around $650k. I also think I will not stay here long term. I'm saving money and gaining experience then i'm going to bolt. The weather is nice year-round (as mentioned) and also people in the bay area tend to be more liberal/progressive (similar to my home state [and Canada]) which I do like. I also find people generally nice around here, though a bit self-centered.
@Doggerz precisely! they should at least separate hardware division and appoint a CEO especially for it.In light of Apple's war with the authorities security awareness is acute and BBRY 10 devices is well entrenched to take advantage of the scenario.It just requires a tunnel vision wherein the entire team focuses on the job at hand
I hope they hire a ton of Women in Sales,lol
They should have listed CEO as one of the positions.
Xperia Z5P / Android 5.1.1 / T-Mobile USA
2nd that!
Working Wide with my Passport to Perfection
The comments on the Russian site are very similar to the ones here. Lamenting absence of hardware positions, talking about new hires at lower $. And comments that the BlackBerry sign in the article's photo looks like a tombstone with flowers on it. Sigh.
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Get rid of chen, I am sure they could hirer cheaper and more inventive people
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No janitors?? so sad
It's a Filthy Shame!
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Hmmm. Let's go work for a company that just laid off a ton of ppl and that can't decide what the want to be as a company. Yeah...gonna get right on that.
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Haha...Exactly! No one with with half a Brain would jump on " Chen's Choo Choo train " of disaster. He is going to de-rail BlackBerry.
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Why in the world is the source of this hiring spree coming out of Russia?
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Thank you! This was the first thing I noticed but was reading down the comments to see if anyone else commented.
Posted using my powerful BlackBerry Z30
We just fired 200 people! So now is your chance! Yeehaw
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BlackBerry will soon be an American company running totally out of California.
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Producing embedded OS for traffic lights, blenders, and other things you won't really care about.
RedBerry Passport /10.3.2.2876 / Telus
Lmao!
Working Wide with my Passport to Perfection
Didn't they just make hundreds redundant?
All the people BlackBerry let go were attached to the phone side.
BlackBerry will not be making phones after 2016.
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Well, hundreds are less than the tens of thousands their competitors have been letting go.
Not a single hardware engineer.
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Don't need them....
1) hardware design has been outsourced to the builders (like the PlayBook was)
2) what new hardware.....
It's the last day of MWC-2016 and there are no updates on Vienna yet! Something fishy?
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Nothing fishy at all. Maybe management finally figured out that the Vienna was a dog. There was no way on god's green earth I was going to buy that thing.
Yes, according to rumours it was just again a Android device.
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I guess once they saw Samsung and LG smartphone launches, they just wanted MWC get over as soon as possible so they can go back to office and destroy the Vienna to such an extent that they will never remember a phone like that existed...!
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Samsung went back to s3 lol nothing new...s7 went backwards lol...android is just an app launcher nothing new
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Hurt much?
*A3-A20
It sounds like Blackberry, like all tech companies are feeling the pain of a falling global economy. Notice all the moves to "cloud" business models and software,etc. Hardware is a tough market when the customers can't afford the top models and many have cut back on redundant upgrades. We are certainly in a lower price economy so for hardware that may be where the greatest opportunity lies. The two countries that can deliver that are India and China while maintaining a decent gross margin. Perhaps BlackBerry could use this time for partnerships rather than trying to run down the field by themselves. Say for example, a partnership between OEM Intex, BlackBerry and Jolla bring cheaper costs to a secure software and cloud system from BlackBerry while using Jolla's Sailfish/Android OS in a BlackBerry styled global phone. That way they have costs, security and a refreshing OS to promote among 3 companies rather than taking on the whole load themselves, certainly a frugal business model in these hard times with many businesses having as Bank of America says, the worst balance sheets in their history. It's hard to sell expense phones to companies that can't afford expense right now and Intex,Blackberry,Jolla could be the secure, affordable solution.
INDIA and CHINA????????????????????????
We are talking Cell phones here....not Two cans connected by a string. They make garbage products, have zero customer service and no quality control. The only things these countries can run is a garbage dump.
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Let's not forget , India and China has been where the major OEMS have had and still continue to have factories building phones the world buys.
That's good Goooooo BlackBerry
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Time to get rid of the main source of all those fails ... John CHEN!
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Being from the "valley", if you are looking for one of these positions, Pleasanton is the place to go. I wont dis the other towns in writing, but I know them well and have worked in one of them.
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Why Pleasanton? I thought it was just another suburb kinda place.
I lived in Pescadero for a couple of months and I could do the commute to San Mateo because Pescadero was a little paradise. San Mateo, I wouldn't want to live there...you wonder if they thought about consolidating the three companies under one roof somewhere too. I guess they decided to try and not ruin the small-company vibe at each place.
Java?
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That's the back-up plan to the back-up plan: if Android doesn't fly, go back to BBOS7!
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Uuuhh...you do know android applications are written in Java right?
Pimp slappin iGeeks, Droinerds and Windufuses with my big white Z30
Get rid of the "floaters", bring in the go getters... new ideas, concepts, ingenuity and energies... Rock On BlackBerry woo-hoo woot woot...
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:-)
• There's a Crack in the Berry right now... •
Let's hope these new employees can steer BlackBerry to a more promising future!
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Sadly not. Chen has burned already too much. Nearly impossible to revert everything! :(
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graduating from Business Technology Management at John Molson School of Business. Hmmm...
All of these positions their looking to fill, are not entry level at all.
Soo this really means that the people that were in those positions MOST LIKELY gave them their two weeks notice as they found better and/or secure jobs 'no pun intended'.
Soo I ask is this a really good thing?!?!?!?? My guess is probably not at least in the long run .
Btw, the marketing positions are a joke since BlackBerry don't market!!!
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Nah, they just cut cost by eliminating the highest paid. "Restructured" the eliminated position and rehire for less money"... But this is great news overall.
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Sure their marketing "sucks" in the consumer space, but it rocks in the enterprise space. Didn't you think about that one? I knew about that for a while now. Lol
Typed using my BlackBerry Classic running 10.3.2.2876 on WINDmobile HSPA+
Could mean lots of things, including that they just want to expand their marketing team and presence in the Bay Area for some specific plan that's been in the works a while. Monsieur Chen said the latter about a year ago if I remember correctly, and they keep acquiring small firms doing specific tasks for their OSes so....
Blaze you look so hot and I love your tattoos :)
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Look like you want to do some hiring too , maybe multiple interviews :)
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He's a married man. Married for 18 years now and has a few triplets. Lay off of him tut tut tut.
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Agree - this board needs more sexy, obvs ! For those questioning, maybe Zen_73 is Blaze's wife... ***Mind blown***
I concur.
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Wait until I tell Fistmaster you are cheating on him.
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Sounds like they layed off the high payed employees to replaces them with minimum salary payed graduates
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They probably evaluated how much those high paid employees were contributing and acted accordingly. That's business. You work hard and contribute or you're gone. Bye.
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Sometimes when layoffs happen it's for more than just people "being lazy".
Projects get cancelled. Different skill sets are required. The location of the person isn't appropriate to the work (ie. partnerships, travel) and they aren't willing to locate. Departments merge and there's duplication. Tech is acquired and some positions like legal/HR/finance aren't really necessary.
Etc. etc. etc.
Shhhh... you're too logical and factual.. the tech media and BBRY trolls just want to keep spreading the FUD so the general public will continue to think BBRY is dead. SMFH
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Fire one or two people, you get hit for wrongful termination. Fire 100 people and it's just layoffs
Lol
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Android doesn't need many or high paid employees to work on...such a innovation. Lol its just an app launcher
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Well that "App Launcher" is controlling the market....
1% are richer than 99 so many dumbed down ppl I'm not surprised lol
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Look at the political landscape in the GOP. I agree 100%. People are not logical at all.
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This is really a good initiative, we need young sparks for BlackBerry to be iconic again.
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Buh Buh Buh Buh but layoffs? BBRY dead? I though the pundits and tech "experts" knew everything?
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New blood, new ideas, new products.
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Nothing is new on android...android will always be androud...blackberry just join the other companies who all make same ****
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And you're full of SH*T
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And what's new with BB10?
Market share! From .5% to .2%... Yipeee!!! ;)
*A3-A20
At least it's different and doesn't lag....i don't buy products based on market share since I don't own the share....im just comparing the quality...I've used all type of Android and most are laggy...the priv crashes, heats up and more....
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Let's not forget that as a shareholder, I could care less about which OS is used. BB10 is far superior, but they can't get apps without customers and customers without apps, etc.
Let's also recognize that total revenue was up last quarter with hardware down to only 40% of total revenue. I would like to see that continue.
BlackBerry is so much more than phones. #1 in autos, #1 in enterprise, IoT end points from traffic lights to blood pressure monitors. BlackBerry future is not phones, but I would love to see them continue making phones.
Also, last quarter Chen said for the first time in years that he is cautiously optimistic that HW may breakeven or be profitable. That will be huge.
Looking forward to 4/1 ER. Chen saved BlackBerry by every means whether or not people appreciate the direction he took; BlackBerry still exists and isn't going anywhere with their balance sheet.
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Just like some of the Android Turds that floated into Crackberry.
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Couldn't care less.. couldn't...
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"Fade into nothingness"
*C5303
And you are rejoicing in sarcastic glee 'cos of that fact...?
Sad, ey... mate? :-D
• There's a Crack in the Berry right now... •
Just calling it as it is.
*A3-A20
The same toolbags like to cheer for BB10's demise... not sure why.. don't like it? Don't use it... SMFh
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They are. Hence the market share that looks like a rounding error.
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There is so much that could be improved on BB10 I don't even know where to start! This OS is just the best! But it needs a lot of work to keep improving! Not just minor fixes! Sucks being Chen and having to make that decision...
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Like?
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It's as good as it gets now, just the apps, hey?
:-)
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Like anything, it can always be better... but I've used iOS and Android... and BB10 is on par (or better) in most (if not all) cases.
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Troll? Much?
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Exactly. The same old toilet full of Turds!
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They are just tabloid reporters.
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Spread the news for these great opportunities. Good luck to the applicants.
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They are probably replacing people who walked out the door due to John Chen poor leadership. He should be on the top of the list for replacement.
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Principal Java server engineer?
As in Android stuff...? 8-o
Mmmhhh...
:-)
• There's a Crack in the Berry right now... •
Too bad I'm not a graduate.. even if I have some reputable knowledge. Sucks that it's in the bay area as well.
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Then let them see what you are as oppose to subscribing to not being a graduate ;).
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At MWC.... BlackBerry was listed as a US Company. Wonder if the move to Software and Good being the focus, might not also mean a "move" for BlackBerry HQ?
Fiirtastic lol
The power of the force and the passport.
THE END.
Hope it's just the honey pot strategy for the headless chickens in Wallstreet...
LOL
Z30 10.2.1 FLOWING. Powered by QNX!
BlackBerry will be pulling out of Canada within two years leaving at most a sales team in Canada.
BlackBerry Priv with CrackBerry App for Android
Firstastic opportunity! With a shift to Cyber Security consulting I think we can expect more of these.
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I second that!
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Firstastic? What's the......
On the subject...... I see they are hiring Marketing staff.. So our beloved BlackBerry knows something about Marketing (and advertising) ? The chickens are coming home to roost!!!
Straight from the beast.... Passport
There's a difference between corporate marketing and consumer marketing. I'm pretty sure all of these are the former.
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And probably all for software marketing.....
Margeting....
Software has high margin, hasn't it...?
I mean, usually... :-)
• There's a Crack in the Berry right now... •
Funking walkers why not RE-HIRE existing employees!?
Better yet why fire them in the first place.
This company is becoming a sour joke of its former glory. I'm sickened.
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