Comments on: We’re #32

By: Andie

Andie — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:14:05 +0000

Oh, man.

Escalator envy.

By: Stanton

Stanton — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:22:31 +0000

Supposedly everything gets better when we move to our new shopping mall. We’ve been told that great effort is being made to make it look like a corporate headquarters and not like the inside of a Dillard’s. However, by popular demand, the escalators will remain in place.

By: Andie

Andie — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:05:15 +0000

Oh, very classy.

I guess I won’t complain. I’m sharing an office, but at least I face away from my new office partner. And he’s a Corrosion Engr who’s not on the phone nearly as often as I am.

And I have a legit desk and all.

By: Stanton

Stanton — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:21:02 +0000

Say hello to my friend the cramped folding picnic table. No kidding. At least I get my own and don’t have to share.

By: Andie

Andie — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:01:57 +0000

So long, walls.

If you haven’t already reached that point.

By: Stanton

Stanton — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:41:26 +0000

What’s kind of funny about our growth is that Fortune says we have 1,736 employees which I’m sure was true when we filed the application. When I checked this morning, we have around 2,100.

Now NI has 2,353 employees in the US and a really nice big fancy building (I love the blue windows). Rackspace has two story Frankenstein building that was meant for a smaller organization and is so incredibly cramped right now. Finding parking in the morning is almost impossible. We bought a shopping mall in northeast San Antonio which we’re renovating into our new corporate headquarters that will let us grow even more, but we won’t move for another several months. All the while, we’re growing jobs at 38% a year.

The moral of the story is that high growth can cause problems, too.

By: Greg Stoll

Greg Stoll — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:48:21 +0000

And NI is at #79! Yay! (although projected job growth of 3% = not so good)