Come and stay a while! We'll make you into a paycheck-collecting cog, no matter how much fire you have in you!
Come and stay a while! We'll make you into a paycheck-collecting cog, no matter how much fire you have in you!
- You get to see how many world-class products are built.
- The salary and benefits are good enough that you don't worry about survival too much.
- Seattle is a great place to live.
Now that Bill Gates is gone, so has the passion.
A lot of politics to deal with if you want career progression past goon-level.
The salary and benefits are not the greatest anymore, and they are getting worse.
People working there are depressed or manic, and it's contagious.
Nothing you build today will be as cool as the stuff they used to make in their heyday.
Steve Ballmer would be fantastic in charge of sales. As CEO of a software company, though, he is incompetent.
They should bring someone external to replace him in that position (someone who hasn't been corrupted by the rampant nepotism and politics necessary to grow to L65+ in-house nowadays).
MSFT is still sick (LisaB notwithstanding) and getting sicker.
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