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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:10:40 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
To: Brian Stark <brian.stark@lsi.com>
Subject: disposition of Siva
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Howdy,

I thought about some of the feedback from the interview last week, and I
felt the best thing to do was to have another talk with Siva and
basically lay it out for him and get his input.  I told him what I was
hoping/expecting for the position: that we have someone who could
proactively "own" the storage stack, as well as help LSI figure out
this whole VM mess (because I don't think anyone really knows what
they're doing in that regard, but that's sorta besides the point)
w.r.t. the I/O and block integration.  I tried to make it as clear as
possible that if he didn't think he could do all that right off, that
the best thing would be for us to start him out in the escalations
group, and move him to development after he got to know the lay of the
land a little better.

His reply was that he was more than ready to handle that role right
now, that he would in no way be interested in an offer to start off in
the escalations team.  I thought, gosh, he's back to mildly assertive
again.  He said early in his career he did do much sustaining work, but
that he has been solidly in development for 10 years now and has been
mentoring less senior teammates for a few years now.

I'm feeling like we should take him at his word and start him out in
development under me, and if he works out like we hope, then great.  If
not then we can transition him to more escalations and qualifications
work like Bill N. used to do.  I made it quite clear that regardless,
the job would be 20-25% escalations work anyway, and he said he has no
problem with that, that's normal for development and so forth.  I think
I mentioned it twice just to make sure.

I think we are a 'go' to get HR to put together an offer then.  Is that
something I should try to handle while you're out?  Or can it wait
until you're back?  Or can you handle it remotely?  I don't even know
if there's anything more to do except tell Dennis to go ahead?

I'm trying not to bug you while you're out, but so far that plan isn't
working too well.

Cheers,

a
