I came along as an aquihire of a Vietnamese team that I just happened to be managing at the time. Great team of people. I negotiated a stupid high salary, probably because they weren't used to someone negotiating at all (highest eng in all of Singapore) and that was part of why they were upset at me, I was making more than that VP of Eng and stirring the pot with comments about their poor architecture decisions.
Yegge was a good hire, but probably wrong company for him given the political differences. I think Yegge started a bit after I was fired. I remember thinking to myself that he's either not going to be very effective or he won't last long. To his credit, I think he lasted longer than I would have bet he would have. They had had another ex FB CTO much earlier before me, that was a train wreck [1] and ended up suing the company. They were without a CTO for a long time, probably thought Yegge could fill that roll and ended up hiring Mark instead.
There was a definite distinction between the Singapore and US/Seattle teams, at least the short time while I was there, they pretty much didn't talk to or like each other at all. It made getting those API calls almost impossible.
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