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Damm, I don't understand a word of that job posting. "Compete muscle" and yada yadda, I mean FTW.
by simplegeek 17y ago
Damm, I don't understand a word of that job posting. "Compete muscle" and yada yadda, I mean FTW.
- brown9-2 17y agoDoes Microsoft expect applicants to know what all these internal terms mean? Or is this a listing more for internal candidates? If you’re looking for a new role where you’ll focus on one of the biggest issues that is top of mind for KT and Steve B in “Compete”, build a complete left to right understanding of the subsidiary, have a large amount of executive exposure, build and manage the activities of a v-team of 13 district Linux& Open Office Compete Leads, and develop a broad set of marketing skills and report to a management team committed to development and recognized for high WHI this is the position for you!
- imajes 17y agolooks like an internal job ad (to me) that got disclosed incorrectly.
- endtime 17y agoLooks internal, but it also looks like they're hiring marketing folk, not engineers. I think that's more likely the reason that it sounds like gibberish. If a marketing person saw an ad looking for someone with experience in T-SQL in Perl (or whatever), it would probably sound equally bizarre.
- imajes 17y agoLots of those acronyms and abbreviations are microsoft internal, i think. They're not generic marketing. I also think they disclose a lot about the nature of internal senior management structure- who reports to who. An example: "KT and SteveB" are probably Kevin Turner (COO) and Steve Ballmer.
- jf 17y agoYou're right. Those are Microsoft internal jargon. "compete": Term used for "not Microsoft" (I came from "compete") "v- team": This position will have contractors working for them. Contractors working for Microsoft have usernames in the format: /[a-z]\-[a-z]+/. Contractors or "Vendors" have usernames starting with 'v-'
- endtime 17y agoI agree with you, they're certainly Microsoft-internal terms. But more specifically, they're Microsoft marketing -internal.
- timdorr 17y agoAnd apparently this job is also for you if you hate grammar...
- Zilioum 17y ago"...to win share against Linux and OpenOffice.org...". Looks like somebody is scared. I like that very much :D But seriously, who would take that job? Somebody who understands a lot about Linux but then decides to "fight" against it?
- jodrellblank 17y agoHow did you get 10 upvotes for a two sentence comment, the first boasting about how you don't understand something(!), and the second being an incomprehensible mash of a two word quote, a misspelled dismissive phrase and an unclear acronym ('For The Win'?).