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Some Developers Leaving Google For Microsoft

Posted by kdawson on from the turning-tide-or-momentary-reversal dept.

recoiledsnake writes "We have heard about lots of talented developers jumping ship from Microsoft to Google, but is the trend beginning to turn? Dare Obasanjo (a Microsoft employee) writes about a few high-profile people picking Microsoft over Google — either making the jump directly, or choosing Microsoft after receiving offers at both. Sergey Solyanik is back to Microsoft and he primarily gripes about the culture and lack of career development at Google. He writes, 'Everything is pretty much run by [engineering] — PMs and testers are conspicuously absent from the process. Google as an organization is not geared — culturally — to delivering enterprise class reliability to its user applications.' Danny Thorpe, who was the key architect of Google Gears, is back at Microsoft for his second stint working on developer technologies related to Windows Live."

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  1. Cost of Living? by stewbacca · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    No, I didn't RTFA, but I'd guess the quality of life in Seattle is about, oh, one billion times better than the Bay Area.

    1. Re:Cost of Living? by stewbacca · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Man, the idea of having a fun tongue-in-cheek (and not to mention, FIRST FIRST POST for me) discussion is lost on you. Get off your lawn?

  2. Does not compute by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Microsoft has more testers.
    Therefore, Microsoft's products are better than Google's.
    *bzzt* - ERROR - OVERLOAD - ERROR *bzzt*

  3. I'm sure it's a Microsoft shill... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I can't write code for the sake of the technology alone - I need to know that the code is useful for others, and the only way to measure the usefulness is by the amount of money that the people are willing to part with to have access to my work.

    Sorry open source fanatics, your world is not for me!

    It's so ironic... open source programmers work KNOWING that their code will be useful for others. And yet he goes because he wants to see how much money he earns from code.

    I can't write code for the sake of the technology alone - I need to know that the code is useful for me, and the only way to measure the usefulness for me is by the amount of money that the people are willing to part with to have access to my work.

    There, fixed.

    P.S. Has anyone noticed the Irony that his blog is owned by Google?
    P.P.S. Read the blog people, the guy's being hammered by his readers :)
    P.P.P.S. I tagged the article "troll".