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I started my first day at Spansion today, and it was as pleasant and hectic as first days usually are. We're in the old AMD headquarters, which is being remodeled, so space is at a premium. I'm marooned far away from my team for the time being. They have me on another floor, squatting with an engineering group. It's all good, though. It's a quiet space and that's always nice. It's good being part of a team again, instead of the whole show.
The vibe there reminds me a lot of when I worked at Raster Graphics - it's the whole white-tile/cleanroom/blue-coat milieu. Since Spansion got AMD's hand-me-down building, the groups are stuffed into available spaces, so cubicle farms and R&D areas intermingle more than they might in a newer facility.
Spansion is a private company co-owned by AMD and Fujitsu, but it's got AMD's culture all over it. It's definately old-money Silicon Valley, more traditional than boom-time companies, but still far more laid back and progressive than the east coast.
I'm a "contingent worker," which is a Silicon Valley method of titling "contractors" in a way that lulls the surrounding full-time employees into thinking they're less contingent than they really are.
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