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Comparison of Working at the 3 Big Search Giants
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'."
He was handing out free xboxes in college before landing as an intern in Microsoft in 1994, That's the year that windows 95 was launched, I definitely do not remember seeing or hearing about xboxes at that time of the year.
Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."
The guy wrote "horderves" to mean "hors d'uvres".