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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."
I bet they do a lot of TPS reports.
I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
If you get a roomful of seasoned IT people to read this they will all say that all the basic tags of this piece are present in any reminiscence of the early days of a great company. Digital Equipment Corporation had a great deal of this proto-fascist sense of belonging, - we were all young and felt ourselves the specialest snowflakes. The success in the marketplace, like love for a Christian, covers over a multitude of sins. I will say DEC didn't offer free food and clothing. Their speciality was alien abduction - they built in towns on Route 495 where the youth were as much as possible free of such distractions as husbands, wives, fuckbuddies of any gender and life as lived. Of course what we were all looking for here was the grim underside of google and we didn't get it. I mean the real nitty-gritty, like the conflicts at Thinking Machines which made traumatized employees go home, pull down the blinds and not answer e-mail or phones for six months. I do know people who have been traumatized by rejection from google after great career debuts at other places, which is very sad.
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-Bill Hicks
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