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The GOOG->MSFT Exodus: Work
25hoursaday.com — A look at the recent times where engineers are starting to prefer working at Microsoft more than Google.
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- volve, on 06/30/2008, -4/+6Given that I recently made this decision, it interests me to see how widespread it is.
- aliweb, on 06/30/2008, -1/+3That was a very interesting read...even though I don't have any remote chance of working with either of the companies...
- Fartag, on 06/30/2008, -7/+3Right, this "mass exodus" has been discussed before in the context of people leaving to start up other companies, and retiring early, etc. Google hires 100 people a week, this blog claims he's seen over 8 (in how much time?) do an MS-->Google-->MS switch and an undisclosed number of first hires picking MS over Google, and it seems like volve has done this as well?
Well that definitely seems to indicate an upswing in trends for MS if it's over a handful!!!
Without more evidence, this seems suspiciously like _another_ attempt by MS to court brain power to compete more strongly on the search engine front. The most obvious way being to make MS seem like an incredibly desirable to work, that "everybody's leaving Google to do it" and make working for Google sound as good as working deep in a ***** mine. Here, relatedly, is MS recently trying to court people from Yahoo after MS's failed deal with Yahoo:
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080618/dear-disgruntl ...
Hopefully the shills stacking Digg to help Microsoft do its advertising here are getting paid as much as the people Microsoft paid to stack and corrupt our once trusted ISO organization! Great job guys! - julienakaleJ, on 06/30/2008, -4/+3Very interresting!
At the end, Microsoft is a "real" software company, Goog is just not!
When (if?) Goog will create dev tools, database, OS or even professional application (don't tell me: goog mini nor goog apps), they will have to follow a clear 'software factory" methodology.
Just a question of:
objectives
time - stevemiddendorf, on 06/30/2008, -3/+0Microsoft is 28+ years old, and dealing with issues that IBM had to deal with to get as big as it got in IBM's heyday. Google is less than 10 years old. The ingredients that will ensure Google's life until it is 28 years old are quite different than the recipes were for IBM and MS. Today, we live in a much more finicky world: life expectancy is rapidly declining for software companies. Popularity and pervasiveness seem to be larger parts of Google's strategy than building their own infrastructure. That's a lot more disconcerting to a 30 year old than to a 20 something.
- kuz2r, on 06/30/2008, -2/+6Quite honestly, some people will be happy to work for any of these companies. Both have good and bad policies, both have good and bad people. Two years ago, I would say that I would want to work for Google, I am not sure as of today.
- smartj, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1I used to work at Microsoft, and I can say that the interview process and career development opportunities there are great. It is a place that values employees, so long as you don't get stuck in a dead-end team with a crummy manager. Even if you do, its pretty easy to move teams provided that you do it discreetly.
It is interesting that the author mentions product quality, and yet customer satisfaction of Google products is vastly higher than that of Microsoft products. Maybe the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence?
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