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 heard... Over at Google

[fenodyree]

I heard, that over at google, they have vat grown clones of Natalie Portman for use by all employee's. How is Microsoft ever going to counter that?

My guess is with an army of brain dead Steve Balmers...

They've got to do something

[lbmouse]

Would the last person to leave Redmond for Mountain View please remember to turn off the lights.

#1 Tip

[niceone]

#1 Tip for MS employees: tell people you work at Google.

Re:the moment I heard...

[raxtor]

Novell? *ducks*

It says volumes about Microsoft...

[dpbsmith]

...that there are so many replies along the lines of

"Dude you shouldn't have published this, why do you even work for microsoft."
    and
"You should quit right away"
    and
"this is horrible, man you ARE the reason microsoft is suffering!"
    and
"What is wrong with you? Why would you publish this? This is internal only"
    and
"I cannot believe you posted this. What is wrong with you? Makes me shudder to think what else your pathetic and bereft character would allow yourself to post"
    and
"Idiot, idiot, you should quit. You should be ashamed. Hopefully HR will figure out who the hell you are and can your ***."

When I read the posting, my thought was that both Microsoft and Google sounded like interesting places to work, with different profiles of plusses and minuses.

When I read the responses, my thought was that Microsoft must be as full of paranoid conformists as the second circle of Hell. If these responses are typical of the environment, goodness knows what Microsoft does to people who post Dilbert cartoons on their office walls.

Marketing had their fun in college

[ghoul]

Now they are not supposed to have a life. Techies didnt have a life in college. They need to get their kicks in sometime. Retirement is a nono as with all the soda few will live to see retirement

Re:I laughed out loud.

[suv4x4]

People know about M$ because M$ has misbehaved not because M$ wants people to know things. M$ leaks like a sieve because their employees hate their company.

That's it. You're a dead man, honestly, watch your back.

I'm taking like a man all the discussions about "evil" and all the posts talking about "you're forgetting, they're convicted monopolists!!!" people repeat like damn parrots on these forums with the cool and non-chalante expression of a Marlboro man going for his 156-th smoke this afternoon.

But I'm not going to see four instances of "M$" in a single line of text and stand here taking it like a pussy.

I'm coming for ya! Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!

Re:I bet

[geekoid]

"I bet when MS is born, it looked like what Google looks like know."
In all fairness, when MS was born there was more gnashing of teeth, the boiling of the black blood of the earth, and child sacrifices.