HP --> Blue Coat
I quit HP, just after spending 2 years and joined Blue Coat yesterday, a Network Security and Application Delivery Network company. Work would be closer to my forte (that I gained while working at NCST/CDAC). Culture is a lot different from HP. A very small and aggressive group of 70 people, just started in India (little more than 10 year old in US, with 1500 employees worldwide). Never wanted to leave HP in such a hurry. But, ...some philosophy... I have just started getting exposure within that large and old company. Formed a handful of nice closed groups. I had separate groups at work for movies, badminton, cycling, motor biking, visits to cafe-coffee-day, and of course for exploring new research areas and publish papers and file patents, after day job. Had to leave all of them and move on. I am sure, I will build most of them at the new work place in no time, but, a loss is a loss :(