While Jobs is famed for his scathing treatment of employees in general, from everything I have seen Bill Gates was extremely technical and known for drilling em

While Jobs is famed for his scathing treatment of employees in general, from everything I have seen Bill Gates was extremely technical and known for drilling employees on the technical issues in scheduled meetings that they knew to expect and prepare for. This is entirely different. There is a good recounting of just such an instance from Joel Spolsky here. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html