Yahoo expending in Lockport/Niagara region

[Mankthetank19]

@evane

Kind of a bs answer, that tells me they are not properly managing employee’s.

I never see a position open that really interests me there, not going to step back into NOC Operator type roles. fuck that noise.

To each there own. I took a step back to join Yahoo and we will see if it pays off in the future. I know my wallet has gotten bigger for taking a step back

But in all seriousness, the best brainstorming and sharing of ideas is in person, not over email, IM, IRC, etc. With the lifestyle of yahoo/google - the best ideas come getting coffee, working out with your buddy on campus, lectures, food runs, playing games.

Synergy has an environment like that but they also have a large revolving door too.

[Blue_Eyed_Devil]

I am making up a new term: " A Western New Yorker"

In a sentence: She pulled a real Western New Yorker and now that project has been stopped.

Definition: When one person stops a project that could help thousands of people.

Just wait for it.

[LZ1]

@Mankthetank19

To each there own. I took a step back to join Yahoo and we will see if it pays off in the future. I know my wallet has gotten bigger for taking a step back

But in all seriousness, the best brainstorming and sharing of ideas is in person, not over email, IM, IRC, etc. With the lifestyle of yahoo/google - the best ideas come getting coffee, working out with your buddy on campus, lectures, food runs, playing games.

Synergy has an environment like that but they also have a large revolving door too.

Does Buffalo get included in any of that since you’re so far away from corporate?

[TradersBASE]

@LZ

You can’t go building datacenters in the middle of the city…

And before someone mentions Shatter, Level 3s POP, and Centrilogic all of those datacenters are a joke compared to what Yahoo built and none of them are designed to scale.

Shatters for example only has a single entry fiber and no generator.

WTF kind of data center has no generator and no fiber redundancy? Glad I’ve never dealt with them before, jeez.

[ProgRocker]

@evane

Kind of a bs answer, that tells me they are not properly managing employee’s.

I never see a position open that really interests me there, not going to step back into NOC Operator type roles. fuck that noise.

Eh, the employee has some accountability. Can’t solely blame the managers

@Mankthetank19

To each there own. I took a step back to join Yahoo and we will see if it pays off in the future. I know my wallet has gotten bigger for taking a step back

But in all seriousness, the best brainstorming and sharing of ideas is in person, not over email, IM, IRC, etc. With the lifestyle of yahoo/google - the best ideas come getting coffee, working out with your buddy on campus, lectures, food runs, playing games.

Synergy has an environment like that but they also have a large revolving door too.

I’d love to work in that “campus environment”. Probably won’t happen here though.

@Blue Eyed Devil

I am making up a new term: " A Western New Yorker"

In a sentence: She pulled a real Western New Yorker and now that project has been stopped.

Definition: When one person stops a project that could help thousands of people.

Just wait for it.

That’s some profiling right there ain’t it?

[LZ1]

@TradersBASE

WTF kind of data center has no generator and no fiber redundancy? Glad I’ve never dealt with them before, jeez.

Because it costs an insane amount of money and permits/contracts to get another entry way under a city street.

Same thing with the generator go find out how much it costs to put one on the roof of a building in the city lollllllllllll

Another fun fact the datacenters at 350 main street once you get off the ground level floor have to be very careful with weight per rack because the building sucks lol

[Mankthetank19]

@LZ

Does Buffalo get included in any of that since you’re so far away from corporate?

Yes and it has been improving - free food, drinks, coffee (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), free corporate smart phone, webex into seminars and presentations that happen at main campus.

This new structures will make Lockport into a corporate office. Yahoo has tons of corporate offices around the US and world - (NY, Toronto, Chicago, Boston, Texas, etc)

[ProgRocker]

@Mankthetank19

Yes and it has been improving - free food, drinks, coffee (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), free corporate smart phone, webex into seminars and presentations that happen at main campus.

This new structures will make Lockport into a corporate office. Yahoo has tons of corporate offices around the US and world - (NY, Toronto, Chicago, Boston, Texas, etc)

Are they hiring for non call center BS?

[Mankthetank19]

@ProgRocker

Are they hiring for non call center BS?

Yes, they will be having future SRE and NOC positions.

[Spam16v]

I’ve ugot six 2Mw gensets there for data, and a 750kw for the bldg, all Level 1 hospital style online in 7 seconds shit. There are 6 more Detroits identical in capacity & 6 more in the forecast. That’ll be 36Mw @ 5kv.

[LZ1]

@Mankthetank19

Yes and it has been improving - free food, drinks, coffee (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), free corporate smart phone, webex into seminars and presentations that happen at main campus.

This new structures will make Lockport into a corporate office. Yahoo has tons of corporate offices around the US and world - (NY, Toronto, Chicago, Boston, Texas, etc)

Cool that was one of the reasons I never pursued a job there when they started hiring.

The face time thing is meh lots of other companies let employees work from home with great success.

I wouldn’t mind going to work if it was one of the companies in the bay area since those places are all setup to have fun but out side of that meh

[evane]

@LZ

You can’t go building datacenters in the middle of the city…

And before someone mentions Shatter, Level 3s POP, and Centrilogic all of those datacenters are a joke compared to what Yahoo built and none of them are designed to scale.

Shatters for example only has a single entry fiber and no generator.

Level3’s DC is not a joke, neither is VZ’s or Equinix. Shatter and Centrilogic are really small time players. I completely disagree, kickass DC’s can be built in metropolitan areas if company’s have the leeway to build from the ground up. Retrofitting however present serious problems, though they can resolved.

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@Mankthetank19

Yes, they will be having future SRE and NOC positions.

What exactly is the scope of Service Reliability Engineers job?

[LZ1]

@evane

Level3’s DC is not a joke, neither is VZ’s or Equinix. Shatter and Centrilogic are really small time players. I completely disagree, kickass DC’s can be built in metropolitan areas if company’s have the leeway to build from the ground up. Retrofitting however present serious problems, though they can resolved.

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What exactly is the scope of Service Reliability Engineers job?

Have you seen the size of the DCs at Yahoo? or any large scale data center?

Level3 has the nicest small datacenter in the area.

Everything in 350/390 main was cool 10 years ago

Based on what Yahoo built and what Verizon was trying to build before they punted on the idea it couldn’t be built in downtown.

Lockport is perfect tons of cheap open land and power we are also relativity free from natural disasters and the climate isn’t insanely hot.

[evane]

@LZ

Have you seen the size of the DCs at Yahoo? or any large scale data center?

Level3 has the nicest small datacenter in the area.

Everything in 350/390 main was cool 10 years ago

Based on what Yahoo built and what Verizon was trying to build before they punted on the idea it couldn’t be built in downtown.

Lockport is perfect tons of cheap open land and power we are also relativity free from natural disasters and the climate isn’t insanely hot.

Have not seen the inside of Yahoo’s DC, and I get your points though.

[Mankthetank19]

Current setup -

To big for downtown

[LZ1]

Yea I don’t think people understand the scale of these datacenters for companies like Yahoo, Google, Apple, etc

[JayS]

But the call center! The call center would be perfect downtown.

Yeah, because it was so awesome when I was in college working at the ClientLogic call center always wondering who’s car was going to be broken into each night, and having the girls escorted to their cars via security after dark.

[LZ1]

@JayS

But the call center! The call center would be perfect downtown.

Yeah, because it was so awesome when I was in college working at the ClientLogic call center always wondering who’s car was going to be broken into each night, and having the girls escorted to their cars via security after dark.

More rape more crime = more cops = more jobs

DURRR

Once the medical campus area gets built my thoughts on the city will change but there was limited places to walk to lunch, shitty parking, half the year you can’t walk to lunch, public transit that doesn’t go anywhere, keep building high end lofts next to the projects, etc.

[95dime]

fuck you erie county people saying the call center should be in buffalo. makes more sense to keep it on the same facility as the data center and theres plenty of people local to the area to work there.

:tup: to more going on in niagara county. this is a few minutes down the road from me.

[JayS]

^ I’d much rather drive to Lockport from Amherst than downtown Buffalo.