Microsoft Employees Critical Of Their Employer

bonch writes "BusinessWeek is running an article on internal unrest at Microsoft from their own employees. 'Once the dream workplace of tech's highest achievers, it is suffering key defections to Google and elsewhere... Much of the sharpest criticism comes from within. Dozens of current and former employees are criticizing -- in BusinessWeek interviews, court testimony, and personal blogs -- the way the company operates internally.' In related news, Steve Ballmer has pledged to make changes inside Microsoft to avoid the embarrassingly long development cycle of Vista, including a 'revamping of the engineering and the processes.' Is it too late?"

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first post?

[Anonymous Coward]

the answer is: 20
the question: how many of the next 20 comments will be criticsims and griping about microsoft

Deja Vu All Over Again

[Doc Ruby]

In other news, Ballmer announces that Microsoft is halting all other work for a month to concentrate on security. We can all be assured that the Microsoft that emerges will finally be secure. Because when Microsoft does something, it does it right, even when that something is not just abusing its monopoly.

Re:Can't say I'm suprised

[DogDude]

As an experienced IT person, I gotta say that if you were a smart soon-to-graduate senior, you wouldn't be writing off a job at the largest, most well-respected, most stable company in the entire industry (and possibly the country). You really can't afford to be that naive as a "soon-to-graduate senior" if you want a job of any kind. You're at the absolute bottem of the totem pole. You should be grateful and say, "thank you" to ANY company that will offer you any kind of job, especially Microsoft. As is, it sounds like you're going to be delivering pizzas with your newly minted degree.

A friendly suggestion

[Locke2005]

Hey Balmer! How about putting the Engineering department in charge of deciding the feature set for Vista, instead of the Marketing department! That would do wonders as far as making sure Vista ships on time, or even ships at all!

Re:Sign of a Maturing Company

[Halfbaked Plan]

Now, Microsoft is trying to up their profits on paper, so they're squeezing employees for that money. Nevermind that Microsoft is still making around a billion a month. And nevermind that Microsoft's lack of profit growth is directly attributable to those managers who are making a million a year in salary.

Wow. All they need to do is hire YOU, since you have it all completely figured out, huh?

Re:Signs of a clueless Company

[Anonymous Coward]

hey fuckwit...now you have pissed me off.

- "dumbasses got hacked." I will find you and gift a rootkit to your computer. Then I will laff at you. yeah, r00t.

- "I didn't once talk to a native english speaker in SIX HOURS". What is a 'native english speaker' ? Who told you that YOU are a 'native english speaker' ? You just don't know other languages, now u will know. Don't wurry, i'll teach u russian. d0bra.

Man, u have a long history on /. That is more than enuff info i need to give u a piece of my mind. How fast can u delete it ?

c u soon banghole.

Re:Signs of a clueless Company

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, no, a 12-year-old sandnigger.

Re:Sign of a Maturing Company

[Profane MuthaFucka]

Half-baked Plan appears to have half-baked his comment too.