What people who have worked with me say
These quotes are from engineering and product work, not invented sales reviews. The sales practice uses the same habit: find the hard problem and stay with it until it moves.
I brought John Sambrook onto a risky and highly political project that had far-reaching consequences within our company. John found solutions to difficult problems, problems I could not have solved without him, thwarting doom over and over again. He produced documentation and code at a professional level I have rarely seen elsewhere in my thirty years of software engineering.
I've run enough companies to know the difference between competitive and unfair. At Applied Microsystems we had an unfair advantage — and one of the clearest examples came from John Sambrook and the outstanding engineers he assembled and led. HP could sell tools. We could deliver the truth.