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> This is my second internship at Microsoft. I worked on Office last year and now I'm working on Windows Live real talk: have you ever worked on an 'embrace, e
by wickedchicken 14y ago
> This is my second internship at Microsoft. I worked on Office last year and now I'm working on Windows Live
real talk: have you ever worked on an 'embrace, extend, extinguish'[1] feature or are rank-and-file engineers shielded from that? the only microsofties I know worked at MSR and from what I understand that is a much different environment than actual microsoft. kind of curious what it's actually like in there[2].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
[2] I tend toward the side of linux zealot so I'm trying to soften my tone here
- zheng 14y agoI can't speak for the grandparent, but I've encountered zero of the famous mindset here. There is a definite competitive nature, but customer needs, not business rivals, are what are pushed to even the lowest devs. I'm working on something that is pretty much an internal tool, but the level of emphasis of being able to use it for modeling the needs of real customers is quite high.
- adamnemecek 14y agoYou should realize that even though MSFT was not the nicest company in the industry in the past, Embrace, extend and extinguish happened almost two decades ago and stuff like that does not really happen anymore (at least I cannot think of anything, but correct me if I'm wrong).