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I watched the firm spend, spend, spend to recruit "the best and the brightest" from Ivy League schools.

A prop trading firm offered him 50% more, and the software company matched the offer.

"As an engineer, I love hearing firm constraints from the beginning.

Our desk merged with the rest of the firm's shitty culture when he was fired for being too ambitious.

Lots of smaller sites will end up paying a "whitehat SEO" firm to work on a "link strategy".

My clients are some of the biggest names in their field, and they stuck with me instead of sticking with the big name law firms.

These firms will claim up down and sideways that what they do is legal, ethical and follows Google's rules.

I think this other firm is pretty lame but if I don't find something better soon I'll have to take it, so I'm hustling.

This is the same firm that predicted Foursquare would be out of business this year which will also prove to be nonsense.

When I became eligible for partnership at my firm, I decided to leave instead.

Today, it has well over 1,000 lawyers and is part of a conglomerate firm with branches in many cities throughout the world.

Suddenly, the large firms looked bloated, overstaffed, and inefficient.

" And the case worked out true to form, with what must have appeared to be surreal results from the viewpoint of the midwest firm's executive management.

One of the most frustrating things is that engineers from different disciplines don't talk to each other, even if they are working for the same firm.

I learned to make decisions in the absence of firm information, knowing that I may be wrong but that I can't make any forward progress without trying something out that is almost certainly wrong.

The rise of in-house lawyers was in part a reaction to the high cost of outside services but, in time, those lawyers were also used routinely to "manage" the outside firms by keeping their billings in line, among other things.

After a while, as the go-go years of the 1980s and 1990s culminated eventually in the tech bubble of 2000, a funny pattern emerged by which a big-firm billing was almost in the nature of an "opening offer.

It then used this report to send a demand letter to the midwest firm, claiming that their management of the construction project was inept and that it had to pay millions of dollars in damages on account of the delays in construction.

That way a mom and pop site that pays a 'whitehat SEO firm' and gets caught doesn't have a worse time than a site like RapGenius that purposely engages in blackhat SEO who can use their VC connections to get out of having to pay a penalty in under 2 weeks.

Pre-bust, no matter what the abuses, the law firms held ultimate sway because even the largest companies with the most sophisticated in-house staffs would be wary of switching firms easily or of wanting to alienate their main outside firms in any way.

After hiring a firm out of the midwest to manage the construction on a fixed-fee contract, it proceeded to make life miserable for that firm by making never-ending revisions to the project plans throughout the course of construction and this not only caused that firm to incur cost overruns but also had the effect of causing substantial delays in getting the work done.