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by spoon16 16y ago
During my 4.5 years I haven't worked on anything but incubation projects. Meaning I have never been on a team with more than 20 full time employees.
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by spoon16 16y ago
There is nothing wrong with making career decisions with input from your family. Maybe I wasn't completely clear though. My staying at Microsoft even at times when I have been frustrated with management or direction is related to my person
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by spoon16 16y ago
This was not in the early 80s. It was the beginning of 2006.
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by spoon16 16y ago
5 years was a personal goal that my wife and I worked out when I started, we had just gotten married and she really likes consistency while I really enjoy ambiguity. It doesn't really have anything to do with being fully vested or not... I
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by spoon16 16y ago
Good point regarding .NET. I have been working hard to have significant expertise beyond .NET even though we are rather .NET focused in my day to day work at Microsoft.
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by spoon16 16y ago
Thanks for that feedback. I do plan on a pretty extensive refactoring of my resume as I get closer to my 5 years.
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by spoon16 16y ago
I think at a company like Microsoft you have a lot to do with whether or not the work is boring. There is a lot of political/organizational dysfunction that comes with a massive company that can make things a little tedious or boring. My e
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by spoon16 16y ago
Good point about the echo chamber :) I think my purpose for posting this question was to provide myself with a reality check as I get more serious about my next career move. Do people just like to be negative about Microsoft because it's th
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Ask HN: How valuable to my resume is 5 years at Microsoft?
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by spoon16 16y ago
Nathan is a very interesting character. Love his idea of developing an industry around "invention capital" and his work with the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is very admirable.
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Nathan Myhrvold, CEO And Founder, Intellectual Ventures on Charlie Rose(charlierose.com)
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Data.gov: Pretty Advanced for a One-Year-Old... over 250k datasets now available(whitehouse.gov)
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Hiring is number one(algeri-wong.com)
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Learnings from Five Years as a Skype Architect(infoq.com)
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How to Write a Killer Resume, for Software Engineers(niniane.org)
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Programming challenges that will help you get hired at Quora(quora.com)
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Amazon and Zappos, six months later: how they're fitting together(techflash.com)
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What happens to an unprotected human body in space?(imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov)
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by spoon16 16y ago
There is an interesting related thread on Quora. http://www.quora.com/How-did-Elliot-Schrage-not-know-that-Fa... Here is what one of the Facebook guys says about the situation: The Wall Street Journal article is not exactly factually fals
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Flickr Co-Founder Caterina Fake on the Value of Viral Loops(fastcompany.com)
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Xkcd: Infrastructures(xkcd.com)
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5 Interesting Data Articles(blog.infochimps.org)
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