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Internal Microsoft Email about Life at Google
An anonymous reader wrote in to give us "An interesting perspective on Google, from an internal email sent around Microsoft. Basically an interview that provides analysis about how Google compares to Microsoft from an employee perspective. Included are suggestions for what Microsoft might copy in order to stay competitive in the job market and criticisms of Google's "college kid" atmosphere."
At the risk of getting marked troll or flamebait, it almost sounds like a pseudo communism. There are bins for them to have shirts, and free food... Google takes care of everything for them. Throw in the "you are all alike" attitude, especially evinced by the random desks and overcrowding.
Since most of this sounds a bit non-standard with companies, it will be interesting to see how well it ends up working in the long run.
"if only i had known i would have been a locksmith." -albert einstein
Internal company culture aside, comparing Google to Microsoft is like comparing apples to well apples. Let me explain....
Microsoft spends billions of dollars a year on research, and does barely anything innovative. Yet they turn out software that is buggy and full of security holes until the third service pack, and it still have holes in security.
Google spends little on research, and does a lot of innovative things. Yet they turn our buggy software that is fundamentally flawed in a security sense. Information is placed on servers with little backups and with users having no real control over the security of their documents.
Both companies market themselves as secure, both say they are on the leading edge. The only difference between the two companies is their internal culture, Microsoft being older has a more traditional model, Google being newer is a more fluid, "Peter Drucker/gore industries inspired" model. The important part is the product not how you get the product done as long as your employees are happy. JUST TURN OUT QUALITY SOFTWARE!!!!!!
So you're in favor of a nanny state where the government decrees that no one can work overtime voluntarily because that might set a dangerous precedent where employers might EXPECT people to work overtime.
Grow the fuck up. If you work at a job where your employer is unreasonable, LEAVE. There's no more slavery or indentured servitude last time I checked. It's a free market. If you don't like your current position, go get another one. If there are enough people out there willing to work harder than you that you can't get the job you want... tough. Who said you were entitled to living your life the way you want?
You've made the mistake of thinking the only way to be a slave is to be physically coerced. That is not true. When the alternative is starving in the gutter, that's close enough to coercion for most people.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
... or he has nothing to toss.
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