We also tended to have long-term stays at companies. We usually had to maintain the software we wrote, so it encouraged us to at least leave some decent documentation breadcrumbs.
>We also tended to have long-term stays at companies.
I was at a minicomputer company (DG) from the mid-80s until the end of the 90s. Mostly PM for hardware. A lot of engineers had been there for a long time. Even more so, people in support functions of various types. There was one woman who I think may have been the only person who knew our BOM and related systems inside out. I think there are still a few people I worked with who are still there (by way of EMC and Dell).
At least as of a few years ago, one of them was one of the engineers who worked on the computer that was chronicled in Soul of a New Machine.
We also tended to have long-term stays at companies. We usually had to maintain the software we wrote, so it encouraged us to at least leave some decent documentation breadcrumbs.