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I had the fortune of visiting the O'Reilly offices in Sebastopol a few weeks ago (thanks Mary!), and this gracious attitude permeates the building. It may be one of the happiest, friendliest offices I've had the fortune of visiting. Plus, the Make offices are just incredibly cool - like a real-life Willy Wonka factory, with hundreds of cool half-built gadgets scattered around.

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I used to work at O'Reilly and this is a perfect description!

Why "used to"? Sounds like a cool place to work

Because they're in the middle of BFE. A beautiful wine country town far, far from everything.

[Note, I can't say for sure that's why the above person doesn't work there anymore, but it's likely. I interviewed several times and was astounded that they wanted me to relocate to the middle of nowhere for a 3 month contract.]

OTOH, it's now a (limited) test market for sonic.net's uncapped 1 Gbps service. ;-)

College.

Wow. Thanks for letting me know they are based in Sebastopol. I live 15 minutes from the office. Might try and check it out.

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