When I worked on databases at Microsoft we were totally trying to find people with good cs fundamentals, and who could program. That was what we were looking fo

When I worked on databases at Microsoft we were totally trying to find people with good cs fundamentals, and who could program. That was what we were looking for (like totally, dude :-)). At google we looked for those things. And in my new job, we also look for those things. Sure, now we ask questions about server and distributed programming, but good cs fundamentals are fundamental still.