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Comparison of Working at the 3 Big Search Giants

Posted by Zonk on from the searching-for-some-free-sushi dept.

castironwok writes "Finally, everything you've ever wanted to know about being an employee at Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Tastyresearch describes his (or her) past few years interning and working at the three companies. Things I didn't know from before: Bill Gates wears old shoes, Google's internal security watches you like a hawk, the office styles of each company, and how to fill your suitcase with Google T-shirts. He calls the few select companies the 'prestigious internship circle', noting 'once you have worked at one, it's a lot easier to get into another'."

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  1. big three? by superwiz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft? There are people who use MSN for searching? Name two.

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    1. Re:big three? by Dunbal · · Score: 4, Funny

      There are people who use MSN for searching? Name two.

      Lincoln 6 Echo and Jordan 2 Delta in the movie "The Island". Oh, you meant REAL people? Sorry...

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    2. Re:big three? by physicsboy500 · · Score: 2, Funny

      True... I don't think that even an MSN search could turn up an MSN search user!

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    3. Re:big three? by sharkey · · Score: 4, Funny

      Guy at my $ORKPLACE has MSN set as his homepage. Whenever he needs to browse a website, he opens IE, types "google" into the MSN search box and hits ENTER. Once at Google, he searches for whatever it is he is looking for.

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    4. Re:big three? by Teresita · · Score: 5, Funny

      Guy at my $ORKPLACE has MSN set as his homepage. Whenever he needs to browse a website, he opens IE, types "google" into the MSN search box and hits ENTER. Once at Google, he searches for whatever it is he is looking for.

      This is exactly like sitting in a Yugo as it is dropped straight down into a Mustang convertable, and then busting out the windshield of the Yugo so you can shift.

    5. Re:big three? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      duhh, Ms. Dewey

  2. I've worked at all three... here's my take by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    When I worked at Yahoo, I had to say things like "Doinky doink" to my boss and paint my face green on one side and white on the other since I was the guy in charge of the Saskatchewan part of Yahoo...wherever the hell Saskatchewan is...anyway... the people in the cubes next to me where chimpanzees but they wore "Richard Nixon" halloween masks.
    When I worked a Microsoft, I had to wear a suit, but the suit was in camoflage colours. My supervisor (I never did find out his name, I only knew him as "XZ95") was in charge of BTLIME.DLL, the subroutine that made sure that the system clock didn't accidentally exceed the number "6"...a big responsibility.
    Finally, I got a job at Google... I don't know how it's going because I've spent all my time trying to win the "special day" competition to remake the "Google" web page logo on those "special days"

    Thanks for listening

  3. Re:Maybe a tamed, blind hawk? by EveryNickIsTaken · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're so badass.

  4. Re:Interesting random fact by Joe+The+Dragon · · Score: 3, Funny

    It needs less video card ram and power the drive one screen then it takes to drive 2 also SLI and cross fire only work with one.

  5. Pretty good actually by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 5, Funny
    Well that's pretty high security for most places. Where I work there's a badge-on-display policy but I have not worn my badge in the last ten years.

    When I worked in the military everyone was supposed to have badge-on-display and everybody was supposed to look at badges all the time. The top security guy rigged a test: He had an arbitrary soldier replace his picture with one of a baboon. He walked past security points at least 6 times a day and was only discovered after 6 months when he dropped his card and people had a really close look at it.

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    1. Re:Pretty good actually by switcha · · Score: 2, Funny

      I would think you would want the top security guy doing more about the security problem besides a six-month implementation of "Operation Adhesive Primate" to show off how bad things were.

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    2. Re:Pretty good actually by Bob54321 · · Score: 4, Funny

      By "arbitrary solder" did you mean "the soldier who looked most like a baboon"?

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    3. Re:Pretty good actually by grcumb · · Score: 2, Funny

      So he taped the front of a small box of Sun-Maid raisins over his badge. And used it like that for six months.

      Feh, that's nothing. I made a counterfeit badge for myself, changing the 'Mitel Networks' (i.e. my employer's) logo to 'Myhell Networks'. Not only did I never get caught, but I never even got disciplined for having the same image flapping merrily in the OpenGL breeze as my screen-saver.

      Did I mention that my unit had absolutely fantastic management? They invested trust in us, and relied on everyone to be creative, to challenge assumptions and to work hard. We were glad to do all that, and more. There's a moral in there somewhere....

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