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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. Right.... by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Google as an organization is not geared - culturally - to delivering enterprise class reliability to its user applications."

    Whew, good thing Microsoft is.

    1. Re:Right.... by Red+Flayer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Screw that. I want miranda-class reliability. Just so I can scream "Khaaaaan!" everytime I have a Windows problem.

      And by the way, it's not enterprise-class, it's Constitution-class. Sheesh.

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  2. I don't know what "PMs" are by Punto · · Score: 5, Funny

    but they better STFU while the engineers are talking.

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  3. Re:Is that so? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah! They should be run by marketing and management people, just like at Microsoft! Everyone knows that engineers can't be relied upon to produce enterprise quality software without marketing's careful guidance and input.

  4. that'll teach me by pete-wilko · · Score: 5, Funny

    I havn't RTFA's in a long time here, but wow, that second article is such a reminder in !RTFA = less desire to punch monitor. Wtf seriously, guy seems to be motivated only if people are buying the product as a measure of usefulness?? I dunno, maybe having 20 million people using some software you built might also be an indication of that? ;)

  5. Re:Is that so? by Penguinisto · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow. Where is this alleged paradise where Program Managers STFU and pay attention to the coders? Where testers don't get to touch it until it's ready for testing?

    ...do they have unicorns there too?

    /P

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  6. Re:Cost of Living? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a Seattle resident, I can tell you that 1) the bookstores have no such thing

    Out of stock in Seattle isn't really a defense...