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Samsung Planning Dramatic Expansion of Joyent Engineering Team
📅 - Samsung recently acquired Joyent, a cloud platform provider in San Fransisco, CA. The deal was announced on June 16th. Samsung plans to aggressively recruit new employees for the Joyent core engineering team, a unique move following the acquisition. Many companies rely on massive layoffs and job cuts after an acquisition.
Joyent CEO Brian Cantrill says Samsung is planning a dramatic expansion of “…the core engineering team…product engineering, product, operations, quality assurance, solutions architecture and so on.”
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