Comments on: Daichendt's Bizarre Nortel Experience

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:49:02 +0000

James Bagnell is a terrific reporter, and I would never slag his work, but I find it curious that the only source of this story is “one account” — which is only mentioned halfway through and doesn't give us an idea of how reliable this account is. Considering this is such a bizarre story, and a story that may be hugely embarrassing to Daichendt (or maybe not), you'd think he'd demonstrate that his version of events comes from a few sources, and credible ones at that, even if unnamed. That said, I have no reason to believe it's not true. What an incredible story.
Tyler

By: Blogger_Brent

Blogger_Brent — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:37:36 +0000

Just talked to a CEO in Fremont that knows Daichendt very well from Cisco and socially. He had not seen the story and I sent him the link. He was flabbergasted at the fact that Gary wanted the CEO job, let alone how he alledgedly asked for it. He said Gary has incredible political astuteness and that to do something like this would be so out of character as to be unbelievable. His thoughts (and probably most folks in the Valley with him) when he (they) heard Daichendt left Nortel were that there was something horribly wroing at Nortel still, either financially or culturally such that any strategy would not work out. Interesting POV from the Valley. Also interesting that it did not make the news down there…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 05:14:19 +0000

How does a company get that kind of information during the interview process without breaking discrimination laws?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:30:33 +0000

In fairness (and I'm a Christian myself), I don't think “do you talk to God before big meetings?” is a very common question in job interviews…
Mind you had he answered “yes” and indicated that he gets a personal response I don't know if that makes him well connected or “connectionless” if you see what I mean…