<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>At rentrak I liked my coworkers, the codebase was ok, but aged. The real problem at rentrak was a group mentality that seemed to react to even the smallest thing with apocalypse level drama and anger. There were also so many developers on multiple teams with stake in the codebase making any significant changes or modernization of the codebase into a minefield of politics.</div><div><br></div><div>My spirit was not crushed at rentrak, but I knew it would be if I stayed just because there was no room for anything new or interesting (except small things)</div><div><br></div><div>-Chad<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:33 AM, David Shultz <<a href="mailto:djshultz@gmail.com">djshultz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Ah,<div><br></div><div> You used to work at Rentrak right? (or do you still? I don't keep up with current employees). I don't generally see the despair from my little office.. would you be open to commenting on your issue(s) with Rentrak? I'd love to hear what others thing/feel/etc about their exp. here (yeah, I work at Rent, been here 10 years in development but I keep my team away from the rest of the company)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Jonathan "Duke" Leto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonathan@leto.net"><a href="mailto:jonathan@leto.net">jonathan@leto.net</a></a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Howdy,<br>
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:06 AM, David Shultz <<a href="mailto:djshultz@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:djshultz@gmail.com">djshultz@gmail.com</a></a>> wrote:<br>
> Ouch, I guess that depends on where you are at with Rentrak (I don't know<br>
> the Powells side of things). Not a great place to discuss this but are that<br>
> many developers unhappy at Rentrak?<br>
<br>
</div>Of course this is a great place. Sunshine is the best medicine.<br>
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From what I hear, both Powells and Rentrak have soul-crushing pits of<br>
despair, I was<br>
just wondering which was worse.<br>
<br>
Duke<br>
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