Life working for Google and Microsoft?

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The following has been making the rounds on just about every internal email list I belong to in Microsoft. Here it is to share a little insight with the rest of the world. Microsoft is an amazingly transparent company. Google is not. Any peek is a good peek.

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Many of you were asking for the feedback I received from my interview with the former Google employee I hired into ABC Development as a Sr.SDE. Here it is. This candidate is also a former MS employee who left the company and founded a “Start-up” called XYZ. XYZ was purchased by Google and he was hired on as a Senior Software Engineer II / Technical Lead. Here is his take on Google’s environment as well as areas Microsoft should consider improving in order to be more competitive.

Enjoy

(Taken from Life at Google – the Microsoftie Perspective, June 24th 2007)

Check it out here!

Work

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing” - Theodore Roosevelt quotes

(Quote taken from Thinkexist.com)

The best job may not be the job with the highest pay, the job with the highest status, or the most challenging job, but very likely, a job worth doing. I’m currently still undergoing my industrial training, working as a “multi-tasker” (combination of design, development, and EVEN planning business models), and after going through these few months, I’ve finally got to know (a lil’ bit) of what working life is all about.