Of course I have - including when I was at Microsoft. The difference is that I don't refer to my employer in the third person. I thought the phrasing was stra

Of course I have - including when I was at Microsoft. The difference is that I don't refer to my employer in the third person. I thought the phrasing was strange. It confused me why he needed to convince Microsoft ("MSCorp") since he is a part of Microsoft. Reading the blog post linked in the comment I was replying to brought the needed clarity: he was talking about convincing Microsoft-not-Microsoft-Research ("MSCorp") while he was at Microsoft Research.