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Weblog:   Not all of the great players are going to Microsoft [Microsoft Plays Hiring Hardball]
Subject:   Don't assume everyone is a sellout
Date:   2003-09-03 11:11:12
From:   dave_chappell
Response to: Don't worry about sellouts

I suppose its easy to attract Microsoft bashers by the title of my posting. I should have known. BTW, I don't share your view of MS, and I don't agree that everyone who goes and works there is a sellout. --Dave
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  • Don't assume everyone is a sellout
    2003-09-04 03:32:25  anonymous2 [View]

    I'm not the original poster, but...

    The real question is what happens to them when they get there. MS has a corporate culture that actively encourages technical decisions based on public relations and marketing, as well as a "get yours" attitude (remember FYIFV?). Excellence is not rewarded, shiny pretty things are. One comparison is universities which hire well known professors for name value, but don't expect them to actually teach anything - just publish a paper every once in a while to keep the school in the journals.
    • Don't assume everyone is a sellout
      2003-09-04 04:54:36  anonymous2 [View]

      You have no idea what you are talking about. I am no fan of Microsoft software and I spend a great deal of my energy encouraging people to use cross-platform standards-based software (which for the most part is *not* Microsoft software). But I also happened to have worked at Microsoft for many years and the "corporate culture" that you describe is nothing like the corporate culture that I experienced.
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