Serial: Experience Microsoft Press: China Water Conservancy and Hydropower Press author: [US] Carlin Carter Preface
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Imagine: You have just graduated from college, living in a shared apartment, driving a unbearable second-hand car. Your all hopes is to find a favorite work and salary can pay a rent. At this time, "Take the tart in the sky, just in your mouth" - you are hired by Microsoft.
Microsoft is in my mind, dreaming around for 14 years. Ability to enter Microsoft is completely due to accident, but staying there because such experiences are like adventures - incredible, hardships, frustration accompanying excitement. Leave it in it, now thinking about what I expect. In 1983, I just added Microsoft, there is no indication that Microsoft will become the future of the future, and its leading position has not yet established. However, Microsoft in that time has been unique.
Our manager often tells us that Microsoft's most important asset is its employee. It is indeed because Microsoft's products are not manufactured by automated pipeline, but originating from the company's employee's mind, through numerous meetings, it is born after a long-term work of the moon for many years. As a part of the company, our employees changed to Microsoft at all times, these years, it is our change, which prompss Microsoft from another step from a step.
To fully understand Microsoft, you have to understand those who can truly represent the company. Years ago, Microsoft also differed from the small workshop. It would be necessary to struggle for survival. At that time, we were the core of the company. We are in the middle of the food chain, not high is not low. In this book, we have introduced our parties, in Microsoft's sweet and bitterness and career development. Through these little drops, give you a vivid Microsoft in our eyes.
"The year is long, the sea is slow", Microsoft has developed into a software empire, and our career has also entered a new stage. Microsoft brings me wild and beautiful experiences, I can't help but want to use this book as a commemoration. Many companies have written us in countless times, but this time, we will tell our own story for the first time.
I send an email to the previous colleagues and ask if they are willing to participate in the creation of this book. As an entry point, I list 10 topics. If you are interested, the reader can find the specific problem I have proposed in the appendix. I want readers to understand: How do we entered Microsoft, Microsoft's corporate culture, management methods and incentive mechanisms, and we have worked in Microsoft, some about Microsoft's anecdote, we have The entire software industry is viewing and our current situation. By the way, I almost forgot, and there is also the role of our ideas and money to our lives.
There are some abbreviations in the text, such as "reorg", you will see a lot, it is the abbreviation of "reorganization". Abbreviations are home for Microsoft. Similarly, the name is only the first word. You will see "Steve" and "Bill", they are Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates, which is a pivotable management. In this book, it will be mentioned repeatedly. If you want to know more about the background, you can check the timetable in the appendix, where you can see more company history and some data.
The author of this book is composed of 6 ladies and 13 men, which is not the actual gender proportion of Microsoft employees. According to my memories, Microsoft's male and female proportions are usually 4 to 1 (this is a fairly perfect proportion). Among these 19 people, 8 programmers, 7 middle-level managers, and 4 people worked in other jobs. Microsoft's employees will often be asked two questions: "Do you know Bill Gates?" And "Are you a millionaire?" About Bill's story, and Steve's rumors are endless, but this book Not about these big characters. This is a person who has a good response to a person who has a good reply from one in a company in a company. It is a personal success of every common reference value for each regular person.
The chapters in the book are different in many ways. Some chapters are short and delicate, and some will sprinkle, talk to them; some chapters are calmly narrative, and some are a series of brief observations. In general, they all reflect the lives of these authors: they have similar pursuits and vitality, although they don't do the same in terms of specific views. Some of the chapters also revealed the author's own life. When you are swimming in the word, some views and other points of view are mutually contracted, because people's work content is different, the team is different, or served in different stages. However, although even in contact, the harmonious melody is still mainstream in the book.
We are in such a new phenomenon: the award of employee priority sharing allows the Secretarial and the number of staff to share the company's wealth. We are also in such a transformation: We no longer follow the company's nine-night work system, and began to adapt to the work culture of the software industry. Because everyone is the business owner, even if the staff of the Secretary and the Hair, the staff must work hard, just like the company is their own.
Many of us joined the company, the personal computer is still a phoenix, but Microsoft has some distinctive attractions. At that time, Microsoft was a company that was not optimistic in the industry that he almost unknown. So when signing it, you must be a little crazy; when your life has been occupied by your work, and this work When you earn less, you must have a little obsessed with your technology or something else. When most people in our joins this company, the company has no name, we have been trying to survive it. We don't have a high income of Microsoft. If you compare early employees, you will find this difference with employees who have been added, you will find this difference.
The book also reveals what makes people working on this puzzle every day like a madman. The human resources sectors in all areas have to find an employee with independent spirit, and Microsoft has successfully solved this problem. We are a competitive team, which has its own spirit, because this is our iscome, is the world of wisdom, here is the standard for evaluating a person. If you give professional athletes, they will work hard. Similarly, give Microsoft's employees a mentally challenge, you will also see the same results.
What makes me a bit surprising is that many programmers will mention Steve Ballmer, and he is now Microsoft's CEO. He seems to be everywhere, I don't know how many employees have been hired, listen to how many employees report, give more expensive incentives. Over the years, he is Microsoft's secret weapon, although what is power so that he is so successful now. His name is even used to do a unit of measure - the big house uses "a certain number of Bauer" to represent the execution of Steve under the command, and whether the door of his office is also a certain Impact.
Everyone is almost all do not let go of your hands and feet. What we pay attention to is how to do work well, and hate hindrances in work, which has become our faithful creed in work. When most people mention the work of their colleagues, they will praise. Money will bring different problems to everyone. Every reaction is different, so we think we are fortunate, because in Microsoft, we get more than just a salary. The income gap between the working class and the middle class is caused by different attitudes, which will let you see the true side of life. Whether to tell people that you have retired home at the age of 30. This is a choice that makes you agreed. It may make you and you have encountered people. When getting an unexpected wealth, some of the nature of people will expose, it is often not a good thing.
The characters in this book are true, no stories that are doped with any fictional forged. In addition to your colleagues in the book, the rest of their colleagues have been named with real names. Each chapter has a thousand autumn, some are their own writing, some after you have a detailed personality, and it is sorted by others. After reading this book, let the views in the book strings, we will show a rich picture in front of you, of course, we also reveal all of Microsoft, at the same time Also show our own weaknesses.
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I only have a few things when I went to Seattle: A few clothes and a shabby mini-car, the body is blue, and the door is orange, and only one is. Whenever I turn right, the water of the water tank will be swayed into my legs, and one day when I travel on the highway, the hood has begun. Later, I went to the old goods trading market to change a car, but this car battery has a problem. When I opened it to a dim, I suddenly found that there was no headlight, and I couldn't see it. At that time, I thought that if I hit something, I at least made me feel that I was driving. When I went to work, I wrote every skill I can think of as much as possible on your resume. And I am going to Seattle because there is a friend there.
Now that my resume is still a life, it has been different from it. When I was in the mirror, I saw a person who was shaped by Microsoft; and at the same time, we also shaped Microsoft.
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Translator
This book tells the personal experience of those who have a person who have nothing to say in Microsoft in Microsoft; let readers pass their eyes, discover Microsoft's secrets of work, crazy work; through their story, experience Microsoft The ordinary and extraordinary career given.
Foreword
Microsoft has developed into a software empire, and our career has also entered a new stage. Microsoft brings us, which is such wild and beautiful experience ...
The first chapter, Microsoft is then we need us - Carlin
It is very different from the interior to see Microsoft and see Microsoft from the outside. I know Microsoft is a small organization that makes us admires, and we are like trying to run the small ants, carrying the huge data units in the virtual interval. From the outside, we look at Microsoft, but we are like a large machine running.
I saw the fanaticism dedicated to technology, not to control the world, nor for gathering wealth, just to solve real problems: only this is well thought.
Chapter II Microsoft is happy to share the wealth and employees, although no one is working for the money to work for Microsoft
Roger
Microsoft is happy to share wealth with employees, and other companies in this area can never have their right.
There is no greedy investor here. At the beginning, Microsoft's shareholders did not have to give up the company. Bill, Steve and Paul Allen are willing to give stocks to employees. Treat employees, they are not awkward. They lead us to create wealth, then everyone will enjoy it. Our starting point is just that we can repair the vulnerability we can repair with a hundred percent of the time, because it is the customer expect.
The third chapter is all the best - Emili
I love Microsoft, because in my life, the first time is only once, someone let me freely, and give me the ability to think.
I love Microsoft, because Microsoft is everywhere, I like and respect.
I love Microsoft, but also because it has many interesting programmers.
I love Microsoft, because Microsoft's employees are very characteristic.
I love Microsoft, because I am a person who loves home, and Microsoft gave my feelings, Microsoft's members like my family.
I love Microsoft because it dismisses that it is so disdainful to all secular concepts.
I love Microsoft because there is the best group here. Everything here is the best.
The fourth chapter If you are not correct, you have no proud capital - Stewart
I have never encountered which team can have wisdom as a team in Microsoft.
Even before Microsoft dominated the world, when we were still a small company, we were very clear about our pride.
Chapter 5 You are this job, this job is you - Rena
For us, the only constant is that everything is changing - every day, monthly, annual changes. We will not look at it.
My biggest benefit in Microsoft is to understand how to put down the hand, people and work. If a certain job you have done too long, this work will occupy all of you.
Chapter 6 We belong to Microsoft this big family - Jack
We don't have a timetable. What we have is more like a list of lists and final deadlines for completing tasks. We use all the time to work, most people are full of enthusiasm for this job, understand its meaning, do not need anyone to control us or our time.
Chapter VII absorbs a new culture, enjoying its fun - Ghart
Microsoft is thinking about what users need? What can make users happy? What can I bring to users? Therefore, Microsoft will grow in the market competition.
Microsoft has proved again and again that it can completely transform yourself.
Chapter 8 we will compete to the end - Ji Village
If Bill can stand on the podium, "We will compete in the end", I will work for him.
Only when you pay for my time and efforts, I will show loyalty. I am just an employee. I think this concept is nothing wrong. In fact, this concept is closer to Microsoft's attitude towards its employees.
Chapter IX Each households running Microsoft's software per table - this
In the mid-1980s, the company has turned its 1/5 employee into a millionaire.
We really feel that everyone is struggling for a common cause: "Each computer is running with Microsoft software every table."
Chapter 10 Soul's happiness and money do not contact - Carlos
Microsoft is a successful person everywhere, so I feel the spirit in this company. I was shocked to find that all people in the company wear ordinary costumes, there was an incredible humility, no sharp arrogance and aggressive, and no stupid arrogant. At the same time, they all have strong confidence, and firmly believe that this collective will certainly succeed.
How to achieve success, Microsoft plays a powerful attraction. A person must learn how to use this attraction, understand the timing of utilization, but also learn to abandon it when appropriate. You have to work hard, and you will know yourself, understand where you come, have a thick roots.
Chapter 11 Recent Discovery Self - Gina
In such a working environment, everyone is stronger, and strives to make things best, which makes me have a chance to re-discover myself.
In Microsoft, if you deliberately cover your own mistakes, you will be exposed to your honest character, and your career path will also be affected. In Microsoft, individuals have freedom to determine their own way, it is really exciting. Speaking exaggeration, Microsoft even give you enough strand, but you can decide yourself to hang.
In Microsoft, the entire company is like a university campus, you can easily find a friendly friend, which can release pressure from all aspects well.
In Microsoft, you will get another experience: bravely try new things. Don't worry, what will you do, don't consider whether you can succeed, just let go of your hand.
Chapter 12 Enjoying the Self-satisfaction of the work - Conrad
Here, work is gradually integrated into something you really care. It is not only to give a high score at the end of the employee. That is a feeling, when you complete a project, produce a product, and this product can make people do what they can't do before, or can help them do better, faster, easier Your work can give you a sense of self.
Chapter 13 Re-proves yourself - Ian
If you want to stay in a high-tech company for a long time, then you must get used to learning without stopping. You can't stop, you can't say: "Hey, I understand these things I know, so I will always have some value." In fact, there are many things that you can learn, and these things are not easy.
I know that even if people never know that there are my hard work behind those products, my work has also had a certain impact and contribution to this world.
Chapter 14 Microsoft has potential to change humanity - Edward
Microsoft has potential to change humanity, because it always maintains a high level of pressure, strive to do faster, more province, better, and win the market. For many companies, even with the best people, the best team, this is also an extremely difficult goal.
From the past absorption experience and active role in new projects, and believe that they will win the respect of the team, this is one of the precious wealth I learned from Microsoft.
Chapter 15 Because of Microsoft, my life is so beautiful - Anne
All of my experience in Microsoft is a change in life. When I work here, I have more understanding of my ability and defect, my ambition, and the lack of ambitions. What I can make me happy, what is a return, which is a deeper understanding of the appreciation of me.
The sixteenth chapter is successful in the continuous effort - Scott
I am very grateful to my career in Microsoft. Here I am learning technology, get confidence, make friends, of course, I also earned money. Now, I think my life is successful. In my life, there is people I love, I have my favorite work, I am satisfied with myself and the environment. For me, success is to be a thoughtful, kind, curious, humorous, and have a manifestative person, success is to continue to work hard. This success can be reached anywhere. This success will keep us clear when we act as a group. I found that Many of Microsoft have similar success.
Chapter 17 I am hired by myself - TC
It seems that everyone realizes that we are part of a unusual thing. I don't mean that we are in Microsoft, but we all know clearly that we are working in a new technology edge, which once is still a kind of thing that changed the world.
No matter what it comes, I will eventually get what I want, but I can't buy it. If other people with similar interest can find this value, perhaps he can make a little contribution to the entire society. If so, I will satisfy and gratifying.
Chapter 18 builds your palace on this land - Mary
Our work is very hard, every minute is really precious. How can a mediocre man succeed in this environment? All this is all - as long as you can achieve achievements, Microsoft will let you do it, you can get the return. I will still dream about Microsoft every night, often is a very simple dream. These dreams are so sweet.
Chapter 19 is not a big, it is right, it is right - Peter
Is Microsoft a big company? interesting!
I think we are both self-annoying. When we communicate with people outside of the company, the development team that is composed of young people tend to completely focus on the results. We are not only unfamiliar to our results, but it may also be so happy because of technical decisions.
"Why do you want to explain the reason? Is there a power!"
The second chapter of a group of smart people gathered in Microsoft mode - Carlin
A group of smart young people from Harvard University, Princeton University and MIT gathered together - what would they do when a group of people gathered in Microsoft?
Now look back, it seems that we should know that the return is coming. But with the development of things, no one is expected to break through another performance record, and crazy sweep the entire stock market.
Microsoft is a strange place, which makes you ultimately have more wealth than those who fail to be with this technological change.
postscript
In front of you is such a book, from it you can see people in Microsoft's two or three things - "Years long goes, the sea Sangtian slows slowly". Microsoft is happy to share the wealth with the staff, although no one is working for the money to work for Microsoft [Roger] (1)
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Microsoft is happy to share wealth with employees, and other companies in this area can never have their right.
There is no greedy investor here. At the beginning, Microsoft's shareholders did not have to give up the company. Bill, Steve and Paul Allen are willing to give stocks to employees. Treat employees, they are not awkward. They lead us to create wealth, then everyone will enjoy it.
Our starting point is just that we can repair the vulnerability we can repair with a hundred percent of the time, because it is the customer expect.
Roger is a gourmet, art collector and physicist, is a common computer programmer. He is firm, there is a small mountain sheep beard and a dark hair, there is a pair of soulful brown eyes. When his relatives and friends have to go to his home, he can still blow whistle or songs work quickly in Microsoft and unaffected. At the same time, he is also a rich person. It is he often tells us a lot about the interesting story about the software developer, about Microsoft and Apple to solve different problems. He can also give yourself unique, insightful evaluation, often he can give strong rebuttures for many rumors around Microsoft.
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When I joined Microsoft in 1986, it is already a public company. However, we didn't have a public awareness at the time, so in many cases the outside world did not know about the work made by the programmer.
There have been a programmer telling him that he is just what is sitting in front of the monitor, and there is no dry banknote. And their parents' generations are indeed true that there is no concept of programming - you can't compare the program and anything they understand. This makes me, once my mother asked how I made the thing on the computer screen to move, and how to program it, and I only have an intuitive image to make an intuitive image. I can explain her question.
In those days, no one is working in Microsoft for the consideration of money. They came here to just for a simple reason, that is what they like to program. In the past, the company did not have bureaucratic habits, and there was no peripheral support personnel and the manager of the upper and lower. I think today's software developers are still the same as they used to be exactly, but because they decrease in the company, their influence on the company's culture is great. Some of the programmers at the time were young people with odd-tragemy, and this also made Bill and Steve early aware of the meaning of each person separately: if you always disturb these programmers, they can't Polyperbiting God, and if they can't get poly fine, they cannot be programmed. Give everyone's own office means that everyone can do what they want. Some interesting things have occurred.
I remember that one weekend, a programmer I know is writing a program in my own office. At that time, the company was responsible for the recruitment - all the women - I used to work on the weekend, one of them knocked the programmer's door, didn't wait until the response is going straight. When she was ready to talk to this programmer, she was surprised to find his naked naked - except for the knee.
There is also a buddy settlement all salary into the backpack, then resigned out. As a result, his backpack was stolen on the way, and the money was of course gone. So he called Steve Ballmer to return to his work.
There is a programmer who has recently told me to tell me that his grandmother is charged to him a $ 25 as a birthday gift. Although he tried to tell her that there was no need to give him money, the old lady was very stubborn, and said: "Can you need a birthday gift like that, after a period of time, I found this A glass began to regularly sending money to a charity committee.
I still remember that one year, an arrogant and rude intern came to the company's internship, which is really a very smart guy. Unfortunately, if you work with him, you may think that he has no sympathy for others. After this, he returned to the company's full-time job for about a year, and later leaving Microsoft for more interested work. It was also until that, we knew every two weeks, he sent himself to his mother, the mother raised his sister alone at home.
One of my friends is very humorous and I like to use it everywhere. One year, he made a note and put it into the mailbox of each summer interns. Write in the note: "We are sorry! We made a mistake! And some of you should not be hired. We will conduct administrative tests for everyone, people who have not passed will only go home. The first part is the program Test, the second part is a swimming test. We hope to see you everyone in the Lake Billg. "
This is very obviously a forged note, but this has not stopped many intern from panicking to call them. Any interns did not see this is a joke, it is really going home.
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Similar interesting situations are heard about Microsoft's statements and our euphemism. The best one I heard is that we secretly transfer our OS / 2 (early Microsoft and IBM-developed microcomputer operating system - translators) developers to Windows development, the purpose is to develop Windows 3.0.0 and can always mislead IBM. In fact, the entire Windows 3.0 development team is forced to sell for the development of OS / 2. There may be half of this may eventually return to the development of the Windows system, but no one will run from the OS / 2 development team to the Windows group to help development 3.0.
There was a rumor outside: "If lotus (Lotus-Early American Software Company's Famous Products - Translator Note), DOS (Disk Operating System, Microsoft Developed Before Windows System, Microcomputer Operating System - Translation Note) will not work. "This sentence is very stupid. Microsoft is happy to share wealth with employees, although no one is working for money to work for Microsoft [Roger] (2)
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First, we will never ignore the application software running on the sale. No matter which company's application, you can run on our operating system. We columnize a list of applications to be compatible, then press the class to do it, pay attention to each software on the list. If people see the process of our work, they will find the truth of the facts.
The second point is that if we do an operating system that cannot be compatible with other application software, it will not be able to obtain a market number.
In short, the customer wants to buy what they are doing themselves. If you ignore the needs of customers, they will not only buy that product, will not buy other products of our company.
We are often accused of saying that there is a software that is interested in the implementation of the operating system, that is not the foot. Our starting point is to patch the vulnerability we can repair with a hundred percent of time, because it is the customer expect. We have forced yourself to find out what you have to find out the application, even the creator doesn't know, in some cases you can't solve these problems. Because there are many application software in this world, it is impossible to fix it.
Interestingly, these allegations have never supported in court. Based on those boring, stupid assertions, the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has conducted investigations, found that there is no born. The Ministry of Justice (DOJ) has also been concluded: no dependent.
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Apple has gained huge profits from an incompatible hardware environment. You can't add other manufacturers 'hardware to your Apple machine, and you can't have a variety of chip manufacturers' hardware. These issues are some minor differences of different manufacturers' chips. Despite the theory, different manufacturers follow the same strict standards to make chips, so the chip should be identical, but it is not true.
Our software has to make up for these differences, but Apple does not need to deal with this problem. Therefore, we must pay more efforts to match the Apple machine.
The advantage of us bringing to the microcomputer is that we are really compatible with many different points. Compatible machine is assumed to be the same as the IBM brand, although it is not. This forces us to request more developers to handle compatibility of different brands, and test all of hardware and software.
So, our operating system must first overcome the difficulties brought about by different computers. Next, consider the peripherals of various brands connected to the microcomputer, the operating system must be able to recognize them. Of course, it is not only to identify them, for example, a printer, you need to know which manufacturer manufactured printer, and related chip manufacturers. Finally, these companies are also required to make these devices can operate normally and compatible with our operating systems.
With the continuous introduction of the Windows operating system, the new version of the vulnerability is less and less. However, because the number of hardware and software involved is increasing, there are always more problems waiting for us to solve.
The problem we encountered is the huge matrix composed of the operating system to deal with it (need to run separate or simultaneous operations under Windows) and hardware (host, sound card, printer, keyboard, mouse, etc.) scale. As the scale of this matrix is growing, some hidden loopholes in the system are constantly exposed. We must constantly test all versions because we must be responsible for all users and their various configurations. Therefore, if you try to make all the work smoothly under Windows, you need to take into account all strange hardware, as well as software produced by various manufacturers, are very complex combinations.
We encountered a very interesting thing when launching Windows 3.0: The first week we sold 1 million system copies. The response is unprecedented, which means we have a huge user base that is trying to use the Windows operating system in a combination of various hardware and software. It is hard to imagine how great achievements in Windows 3.0.
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When I just added Microsoft, the company did not have much liquidity. Although stocks have been issued for the first time, even those employees who have joined in 1981 are not rich. Plus us always think that he has reached the highest point, the stock price is impossible to rise. In 1988, a group of people said that our stock price has been climbed. As soon as they said this, they took the ass to leave.
Microsoft is the most generous in terms of rewards for employees. There is no doubt that Microsoft is happy to share wealth with employees, and other companies in this area can never have their right. This is a measures to encourage and attract talents. There is no greedy investor (that is, the so-called venture investors), so I haven't intended to give up the company at the beginning of Microsoft. Bill, Steve and Paul Allen are willing to give stocks to employees. Treat our employees, they are not awkward. They led us to create wealth, then enjoy it, this created today our "Puget Sound" (a regional investment plan) regional economy.
Some people choose not to join us because they feel that Microsoft will not succeed. I have won a Ph.D. in the University of Princeton University. After participating in the interview, Steve gave him a job, but he was refused because he felt that the company did not have any future.
Everything here is the best [Emily] (1)
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I love Microsoft, because in my life, the first time is only once, someone let me freely, and give me the ability to think.
I love Microsoft, because Microsoft is everywhere, I like and respect.
I love Microsoft, but also because it has many interesting programmers.
I love Microsoft, because Microsoft's employees are very characteristic.
I love Microsoft, because I am a person who loves home, and Microsoft gave my feelings, Microsoft's members like my family.
I love Microsoft because it dismisses that it is so disdainful to all secular concepts.
I love Microsoft because there is the best group here. Everything here is the best.
Emili opened her heart to us. How do we see how Microsoft guides her, shape her, lead her into a new sky. We also see how she encountered mutations in the career of Microsoft, and got up volts. She is a decisive Chinese and Western women, blonde, a thick glasses of a symbolic reading person. She is a very loyal friend, often traveling, posted a quarterly ticket for the Opera House, Symphony Orchestra and Seattle Sailor Baseball Team. She describes her first exercise of stock options: "I have always been very normal. But I remember that moment, when I stared at those numbers, my heart suddenly started to jump, excited to tremble!" ◆
In Microsoft's years, I realized the biggest happiness and misfortune you can understand, sometimes these two feelings will appear at the same day.
When I was the happiest time, when I as part of a team - this team doesn't have to be very cohesive, and there is no need to be too official, as long as there is a loose affiliation. Microsoft is such a team, everyone is a molecule in a family. We said the same language; there are the same abbreviations; we use your own words to understand the jokes; we have your own jaices; have the same history; we share the tempering and suffering, share the victory together; we There is also a common enemy.
When I just came to Microsoft, I am laughing at the buddies who will use Microsoft as all of them. Whether you have any shortcomings in your life, Microsoft will help you fill it. You don't need to buy clothes, because there is a stable supply streamline, providing you T-shirt. Is there a social life? no problem! If you like to sing, there are groups who have hobbies singing, and there are English football groups, single parental groups, men and women gay groups, such as this. You can also choose the easiest way to fill your life: let yourself immerse yourself in the busy work. You can go home at 8 pm, do something in the microwave oven to eat, look at TV, then sleep; get up next day, drink a coffee, return to the company.
Unlike many other people, I have done other jobs before coming to Microsoft, which is a big advantage that I can see some problems from a unique angle. I have worked 60 hours a week when I was critical; I was also forced to put into work when I was very ill, I imagined the dog, and I was forced to cancel the holiday because I can't leave jobs. Therefore, from many aspects, Microsoft's high-intensity work environment is not a new thing for me.
It is a pleasant, a sense of family, warmth. When those who wear the "trash can cover, I was fascinated when I was a broom handle. I was fascinated by them. There are also those who ride a single wheel in the parking lot, and the sweatshield is not worn in the basketball court when there is a break in the afternoon. I never participated in the spontaneous organization of every Friday afternoon party, but I am very concerned about these gatherings. What I am surprised is that they have surrounded the gully, creeks and trees, and the campus garden, rather than destroying the surrounding natural environment. These are deeply impressed me deeply. I have never hate to wear a work, and the people here are common in Bermuda shorts and the closeness. Their office looks like a dormitory room, and the soda bottle is like a pyramid. Email passed through the parking lot of the 5th, be careful when a duck is gone around her children. These have made me a feeling at home.
There is also a relatively fresh thing to be rich here. In my work that I came to Microsoft, you must ask the office manager to be able to have a reasons. When you first want it, she will open the drawer of the desk, take a key, use it to open another drawer, take out a copy carefully, then hand it to you very seriously. You have to understand that it is best not to make such a requirement in recent days. In Microsoft, there are 4 supply rooms in each building, which is full of reasons, floppy, pen, note book, dedicated letter paper, folder, various colors tags, and all you can think of Things, and no one can look at the tube. There is a drink that can be imagined in the kitchen - even Clamato, an uncommon drink name - translator's note), all of which are free. There is a soup in the cupboard, it is prepared after the people who are doing night in the buffet restaurant. There is an open-air leisure area outside each building. When the weather is good, we can rest next to the table under the umbrella, eat. It is a very infectious excitement, which is a feeling that is engaged in a unique, novel and stimulating work. It is impossible to avoid those who are fanatics, passion, excitement in my mind, is impossible. I still remember at a company meeting I participated in the first time, people in a product group wearing the same product propaganda T-shirt sitting together, forming a fresh yellow people in the crowded conference hall. They shouted, roaring like a ghost, and they were like this. After that, with time, Microsoft's reputation is gradually known. At this time, the jokes about IBM, destroying the words of Apple and the irony talk about Novell and Lotus Company, it seems to have a more meaningful. In my personal concern, I am more concentrate on my job. When I found out the outside world, I wouldn't help but defend the company.
Everything here is the best [Emily] (2)
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At the beginning, I can maintain a relatively super state; but in the end, I was defeated in the emotion, and I was in love with Microsoft.
This scenario is like a beginning, you were put in a sports class, then you were selected in their carefully selected. When you know that Microsoft wants you, you will not feel that you have received a high raise. Since then, you will find that you will lose your personality when you become Microsoft employees. At this time you see the world, just a world related to Microsoft.
For a long time, Microsoft has been leading me, making me a real Microsoft, and I will then find this is a wrong relationship. The company often abuses the time of employees, and has come to the company and work hard every day. You must sacrifice yourself, put it in your work, every time you have to perform excellent performance like the last performance assessment; you must also keep it with this collective, no departure. Any resistance is futile.
But soon, things began to change. My first work team in the International Ministry is a model that is united and transparent in all aspects. We have a common goal, everyone is struggling to this goal. Just starting the superior authority to pay attention to the spirit of the team, we also follow this system. Soon, Microsoft's higher level of manager emphasized that if we compete between teams, work will do more beautiful. So, the team cooperation will so far, from this other team is our opponent, not a friendly army.
Based on a variety of reasons, the dereliction of dereliction of critical information such as the critical event schedule is detention, and it has begun to occur frequently. The company is in the upper reaches of the R & D department often has contradiction between the needs and the extent to which it is realized, and we are in the company's downstream, we have become the company's budget, product plan timetable, extra employee and external seller. "Sin" in a false schedule. We slowly learned the essence of problems from false messages, and provide us with news from the upstream training of the company to predict our work tasks. But soon, these methods have been proven to be extremely stupid and don't work. As far as I know, this is also the company today. From time to time, the new ideas interrupt your ideas, someone will come out to indicate you to restructive your team according to his concept and ideas. And if this, you have worked hard, and the team that deeply loved himself is to be destroyed. Reorganize? This sounds very simple, but with time, I gradually regarded it as a different way of tormenting. You are still so important for this goal, and this goal is so important. You have your own schedule and some implementation of some plan, you have a complete budget and employee expectations and its training programs. But at this time, the company opened a meeting. Suddenly, all your plans are no longer important, not only, your entire team has no existence. It is already too much. Now the new plan is born, the new strategy is born, a new world you don't know, this is born, this is a knife that is tantamount to you.
When such a thing in the first few times, it is almost devastating. Doubt, panic, anger has reached the extreme, they can make the mountain shake. People always say that this kind of thing will not happen in Microsoft, because they don't think we are like Boeing, Safeco (Safeco, a headquarters) that is like a big company in Seattle's insurance company-translator's note). A colleague was assigned to a forever, the former manager reported her, and she said that this is tantamount to let a long-term wife have been forced to her brutal husband.
After a while, everyone is no longer surprising to the group, but this policy has caused the loss of people's heart and cohesiveness. I have never done that there is no reason to dismiss outward employees. In the early days and medium-term, large-scale reduction employees in the early 1990s are the halo. But for most Microsoft employees, this kind of thing means betrayed by the company and sells. As a mid-layer manager, we only have to completely resolve disputes and strive to avoid conflicts, transfer everyone's attention to the work of the hand, and ensure that they are quietly quiet, develop a detailed plan and timetable for the next meeting. That is to help everyone take the knife behind them, try to get rid of them from sorrow and angry, so that these things will be disappeared as soon as possible.
However, a series of unfortunate things happen. I found that I have faced a bad manager I have never seen, I really can't cover up to him. He spent a whole 1 year to please me, praise me, want me to be a member of the alliance and work hard. However, the more this, the more it causes my disgust. Finally, he had to give up and handed my mission to others. I have to watch a person who is not enough to be responsible for such a tricky job, although I am familiar with this work like my hands. In the meant, I spent a long time in Taipei, and waited for a new job task, but the last did not wait.
This job is the project I have treated the most serious, almost in a few years, exhausted my whole way. His bad management has caused catastrophic consequences, including short-term and long-term. I know that he will soon not be notorious in the company, and to pay a price on his own behavior, with the responsibility of Microsoft is a very powerful crime, so I hope that I don't have any work with him.
I propose my suitable person in the company to worry about this issue, and in the company 's widely clarified my point of view. However, what I unexpected is that his head boss has to support him. I have never had doubts about the company's high efficiency management methods. I know that they have their own truth, but in that matter, I have almost lost confidence in them. Everything here is the best [Emily] (3)
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I spent 6 months, I want to change a job within the company, but for people like me, I have already done it, even if Microsoft has its limitations.
So I came to the company for nearly 8 years, I became a slogan, I began to feel that I was like a non-timeline dinosaury. The company's senior leaders sometimes mention me, and discuss some of the valuable knowledge and experiences proposed by the company, but never think of it to implement them.
At this time, my friend suggested that I update my financial position, he said that I may find that I have already have the wealth I can't believe in. I did this, and I was really shocked. I already have enough capital that can leave. Similarly, I spent another 6 months to leave, part of the reason is that I don't have to be confident to have so much wealth, but most of the reasons, I have to spend time to accept the reality.
I have never really recovered from the hits that left Microsoft. I can talk to Microsoft's friends. I have experienced in the company, especially those who worked in the company that time. But I have little to talk about this with others. That is too harm to me, until this effect is still there. It is like the love of your life. It is the pain of your life, it will never recover.
I love Microsoft, because in my life, the first time is only once, someone let me freely, and give me the ability to think. Some people have said: "Take advantage of your best, play your most beautiful punches." I did this, and successful, I also got a return.
I love Microsoft, because Microsoft is everywhere, I like and respect. Even people I don't like, it is also worthy of my respect. They have been well educated, smart, passionate, energetic, creative and able to complete their work well. Most importantly, they have never "already very good" ideas, they are born challenging.
I love Microsoft, but also because it has many interesting programmers. In this world of thin, wearing a thick glasses of genius nerd, it is vibrant. One of my brothers is such a fun guy, his friend is also; some of my best friends are also true. I love the world that is made by these geniors.
I love Microsoft, because Microsoft's employees are very characteristic. They come from all areas of life: poets, painters, teachers, tour guides, architects, automotive salespersons, singer, philosophical, like this. Of course, I will not have the work in the print shop or the community weekly work, and there is also a ballet, send Pizza, and even talk about Romanian. At that time I have just entered Microsoft Entrepreneurship, almost all unhaded employees are pulling over from some non-technology fields, all because the software has just become an emerging industry. For the cooking of the log wood, Bulgarian people's people, these people are all computers, all over the wind, and energetic, ideas. They are rich in adventurous spirit, and they are not laboe. This is this helper, which makes me inspire.
I love Microsoft, because I am a person who loves home, and Microsoft gave my feelings, Microsoft's members like my family. This help knows where you are, where they know your shortcomings, because they also have the same shortcomings; they don't ask if you want to do anything, why do you want you? Go crazy, but they really know you. I love Microsoft because there is the best group here. Everything here is the best. Since birth, I am still surrounded by such a rich and wonderful thing, this feeling is unparalleled.
I love Microsoft because it dismisses that it is so disdainful to all secular concepts. I have been told to keep it low-key, but in Microsoft, no one has made me then do it.
Today, when someone wants to tell me something about Microsoft, I really don't want to listen. My favorite Microsoft has become the past. Today, the industry giant situated in Redmond, is no longer the company I have struggled, energetic and interesting. There is no doubt that some things have lost, no longer exist.
Despite this, I still support Microsoft and putting it today as a standard for evaluating other companies. Its deeds reflect what can be called human quality, what can be called work, what can be called true fun to get in work; it proves me to achieve outstanding achievements through extreme efforts, And experience happiness in this process is a completely possible thing.
When I was ready to exit Microsoft, I wrote a long letter to my grandparents, talked about my equity in Microsoft. For example, how did I get them, how do they work, why I will become so rich. However, I didn't say how much I did, I only told them that if I lived so indulgence, and the stock market can stay stable, I can do not need to work. The reason why I explain these, just because, I don't want them to worry about my livelihood because of my resignation or unemployment.
My family doesn't care about my money. I am from the Midwest, and those in our people advocate moderate and harmony, and people always try to avoid conflicts. Whenever we were forced to express some things to be more than normal, we would say quietly: "Well, there is really a little different." I didn't give my money to my family, but this didn't show that I am a jelly. Sign up, of course, doesn't mean that I don't love my family. Just because, money will change something and things. Once you give others money, the true meaning of your relationship will be changed.
As for another, I am afraid it is because I think they really need things, giving them money to the last place.
Friends who don't work in Microsoft don't ask me about money. They may be surprised to me. For example, I will fly to Los Angeles to see an art exhibition, I will go to Phoenix to see the spring training of the sailor team. But anyone who knows me knows, I am a person who is born for passion. For the opera, I don't like it, but love. You may say, of course, you have conditions to like it, but in fact, I have always like it before I have money, and the money is only a more favorable condition.
Everything here is the best [Emily] (4)
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The enthusiasm and highlights of the high concentration make me survive in Microsoft, of course, not just survival, actually I am developed. Microsoft is a place for passionate people. In turn also leads to many people to get equity.
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So what do I do with these money?
I earn this money.
I am lucky.
It is also intelligent.
Yes, I earn this money. At that time in Microsoft, the company has to pick some contributions every year to meet or exceed the allocated tasks, send them a company shares as special rewards. I can say honestly, compared to those people around me, I have earned those shares, that is what I should. I have worked hard every day, I'm busy with the bench. But more importantly, I can create benefits, but it is not only the result of hard work. I am constantly surpassing the company for me. I can say that I can't say that I am worthwhile.
On the other hand, I am lucky. I am fortunate to understand their goals in the first time; I am fortunate to have the technology they need; I am lucky to gain employment; I am fortunate to enhance my manager, and they are allocated The way I admit my job; I am fortunate to work in an efficient team, and my colleagues are loyal to work, and I am determined to succeed.
On the other hand, I am savvy on the money. We all know that many people have wasted their shares without high choice. I won't give you a shares to buy a car. I have completely ignored those equity, and they are in these years, one more, and then appreciate. I never worry about tracking their value, I don't pay attention to it, but it is the best strategy. You may think of what I just told you about ignorance, lazy and luck, not a savvy choice. Yes, it is true that this I admit it. However, in any case, when I got those equity, I won't spend three languages, which is the focus. However, many people are really like this.
37 years old is a very strange thing that is very unbelievable, it makes you separated from others. On the month I left, at work day, I took a walk along the fixed route - in those walks of walks, I have a full-time mother who accompanied by a child walking, and gray hair. Formal retired old man. I feel that they are watching me, it seems to say: "Why are you not working?"
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Every day I wake up, I have to ask: "It's really a ghost, how can I be so lucky?" When I parked the car in front of the traffic light, I wondered this question; when I brush your teeth, I also thought about this problem. My Microsoft's friends have completed work with me. We are always windy, although we are not a lot, but this group dares to challenge any difficulties - honestly, we earn these money.
If there is no honesty of the friends of Microsoft and the integrity of nothing to talk, I don't know what I should do. Although there is a lot of money, but the money does not eliminate the pain, and you can't fill the inner emptiness; money can't make a sick child to restore health, and you can't stop your parents' old; money can't stop a wife from lying, you can't Let the husband stop alcoholism. Sometimes you think anything is not a problem, because you are lucky. But my friends of my Microsoft understand that this is just Hu. Thanks to God to give me these friends.
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Most of the time, I live very ordinary life, there is no indication that I have money, my neighbors can't know this.
Below these is some of my external performance:
I don't have to work;
I have a season of the opera (and at least the box);
I am going to Europe to travel frequencies;
I have a small villa in the waters of San Juan Island in Seattle;
I will luxury from time to time: I hire people to help me clean the house and clean the yard. But some "ordinary people" will do this.
One of the true fun of richness is to give a gift. I really like the feeling that generously gives gifts without having to think, but I don't often do this. Because people may resent this behavior, you have to be cautious about this. On the other hand, I wore a very old jeans, and the wardrobe was filled with a 10-year-old sweatshirt. The car has been opened for 12 years. The house is very comfortable but not extravagant. I have no digital subscriber line (DSL, and cable demodulators in the early Internet, similar to our use of modem dial-up online-translator note) and there is no cable demodulator. I am a very easy person.
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At the moment I first exercise the staff priority sharing, huge money is like a brick, and these money can be used to repay the $ 110,000 housing loan. You have to know that at that time, I have never had a transaction of more than a few thousand dollars, whether it is a car loan or something else.
I still remember that I sat in the chair waiting for the confirmation information of the transaction, I still remember that I stared at those numbers, I saw so many zero, I have always been in an orderly manner, and suddenly my heart. Dramatic beat. I shaken, I can't sit still. I walked back and forth in the office. "God, my God." I went out, standing in the back door with my trembling hand and smoked a smoke. I walked back to the house, called a girlfriend, shouting her with her whicl.
I quietly indulge in this feeling until I have to go home. I spent a few hours to restore calm. Now I still have a little hairdressing from time to time, but I haven't excited like it.
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Everything here is the best [Emily] (5)
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After leaving Microsoft, many of us participated in volunteer or non-profit jobs, which made us very shocked. Although Microsoft's employees are not accustomed to the more than a kg in money, most of the non-profit organizations are managing, usually, only the anti-roleless language is sufficient to leave most of us to leave.
Some people go to travel, and some of them are really fascinated. For example, I have just received a postcard from Antarctica.
My female friends with children want to make up for the lost time, and bury their full-time mother. Many of them will use the same energy, time and imagination to raise their children, and they have given these to Microsoft. They are diligent, knowledgeable, blocked, never fatigue.
In those years that I started, they all felt very worthwhile. But just like all people, then they started to be not satisfied. Some people have become very narrow, people have become very fragile; some people become emotional, close themselves; some people, when they send their children to school, or they own The way is involved in other activities or re-gotting with your old friends.
People are often keen on playing toys or stimulating adventures, of course they also shop, travel or run their own hobby. For example, a guy flew to Europe to play golf, and a guy has fallen into a gambling dilemma and loses work until you lose your wife and daughter. However, there are some people, they continue to work in order to stay at home without having to work, and live with quite expensive houses, live a luxury life.
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Unfortunately, there is a unfortunate model: I have earned a lot of money, built the house in the dream, and then the marriage ruptures, and then sells the Once the dream of the dream. If I am a lawyer of a proxy divorce, I will pay more attention to information about the construction license in the legal advertisement bar on the newspaper, which may make me see future agent business opportunities. ◆
Some people become more conservative in their minds. Sometimes there is money, it will make you more reluctant to spend money. You will hate anyone who tries to take away your hard-earned money, even if you pay for those who are not enough to buy a pair of shoes. You caught a self-righteous trap and thought that I got me, they should go to them. I don't just see this kind of thing once, but I am gratified that there is still an exception. Money can also cause people from the heart: There are many people donated a lot of property and is keen on social services and public welfare undertakings. "Phuket Voice" is built by Microsoft, and there are many Microsoft employees to do volunteers there. This is a good thing.
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Life If there is no goal, you will lose the direction. The work is not just a salary, which makes you feel indispensable, so that you feel that what you do is valuable, and we have done. As part of society, families, you need to learn, improve and improve your self. A goal is reached, or you will bring you a sense of accomplishment before the deadline. Regardless of the right, what we do, show what kind of person we are.
Not working will make people become very isolated. There is no daily life consisting of work, some people will gradually indulge, turn to seek dangerous elements in life. Of course, the dangers I have referred to do not refer to drugs and alcohol, but lonely, loneliness. Try to buy happiness, form a weird hobby, feel the feeling of self, frustration, floating, unimery, all of these may make people feel a good vacation, but I think no one will be willing to live This is spent.
In the end, many people have found some form of work, or part-time, or temporary. This time they work is for yourself, and it is no longer a noble volunteer. And many people designed a work plan, so that their lives look like work - it seems to work.
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If you tell others that you are very rich, they are ideally known to your attitude: must be very friendly because they know your use value in the future. Everyone of course understands if they don't have to work but have enough money, then their life will look like. If you take a very cold attitude towards them, they will basically turn a disappearance, because they have been covered by their eyes in the mind - that is some of your beautiful embarrassment because of your rich. They have seen the future as Utopia, regarding all the problems in the world, and all the problems in life can be solved. If I don't have to go out for life, I can be a more competent mother. Similarly, if I don't need to make money for a long time to night, our marriage will be more beautiful.
When you have different ideas, they will not be heard, so you can only abandon the expression. For them, you are no longer "actual". Now you are "virtual no", they can't hear you, I can't see you. This is the biggest problem that I have encountered in my life after I entered Microsoft. It destroys my marriage life, because my husband is not angry with me, I will not see it.
Money can change everything, but everything can be changed. It's like love, you will not feel very unoccupied; but you will not be happy after you have. In the long run, your happiness is lost, and it is ultimately yourself, and the money is just a tool you can use at will. After having money, compared with the previous poorest, my happiness has neither added and there is no reduction. Of course, I am more economical, life is also more leisure, comfortable: I can only go to a place to travel before you can go; when you visit friends, I can rent a car without having to squeeze slowly. Bus; I have time to repair a variety of bad little things in the house; I can see the movies you want to watch, buy my favorite books and CDs; you can also meet with friends. Everything here is the best [Emily] (6)
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I know that I am very fortunate and is full of gratitude.
A lot of new culture, enjoy your fun [Gerhardt] (1)
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Microsoft is thinking about what users need? What can make users happy? What can I bring to users? Therefore, Microsoft will grow in the market competition.
Microsoft has proved again and again that it can completely transform yourself.
Ghhat is thin, white skin, and face angular angle. He is a German, a fluent English, but there is still some German accent. What is unexpectedly, he found a US wife (he wanted to find it back to Germany), and now there are two pale yellow hair, can speak two languages. The entire body and mind of Ghhat are immersed in this new life. He looks at why the US software industry can dominate the world in an international perspective, and he also commented on the US culture.
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When I first finished my computer science profession, I thought, ok, let me take advantage of the remaining time. So I applied for an internship and didn't graduate in advance. I am very interested in the moral norms between cultural and work. Therefore, I want to go to the United States to see because it is the birthplace of computer and software, and will definitely fun.
I have sent my resume to 20 companies, including some big companies, such as HP (HP), Microsoft, Oracle, in fact, I don't know where these companies are, what is it. One night, I received a call from Microsoft, a German called: "If you can have a project for 12 months, then you can come tomorrow." I will play the next day. " Telephone to him: "No problem, let us start."
I use a week of time to make my papers for the final revision, and put things out of the dormitory, put it in my parents, bring a visa, buy tickets, ready for two suitcases. So I came to this country I have never been there - in fact, I have never been out of Europe. In a week, I found a share of the house; spent $ 750, I bought a car, Honda Civic, 10 years, but there are four wheels and an engine, but also can move; get social security Card; bought a bed. In this way, I have all a necessity in living in the United States. My English is not very good. Through the study of the school, I have no problem in reading. If I have prepared, I can talk about some things, but when I discuss it, I want to keep up, I will become very difficult. . When I just responded, the topic has been changed. Speaking must be learned in real time. I am so hard to learn a thing, that is, you don't have to answer "How are you?" Such a problem in detail.
There is also a simple and strange question like you enter the restaurant: "Is it placed on it?"
"Of course! Yes, of course!" Although you can quickly adapt to such scenarios, at that time, waiters and me because I don't know what to say, I don't know what to say.
In the International Group of Microsoft, I truly met Europe through contact with people from Belgium, France, Italy, Sweden and Spain. Although everyone works together, it is still affected by the country, background and personal character. And I have never encountered this situation in Germany.
Since most people are single people, there are many social gatherings. I want to absorb a new culture and enjoy it. At this time, the time limit is within 12 months, so I will make full use of this short time. Any kind of activities proposed, I have participated. Everyone here is in the same position, we think we have to be 12 months here, or even 18 months.
In the first weekend, I went to Fan Kufu and Canada, because I think this is a good opportunity for me in my life. Then, everyone decided to organize a trip and went to the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Because I applied to the company to a different job without time limit, I would not be so eager. I gradually understand the way Americans, I am sure that I am truly experiencing American life. I no longer want to stay with Europeans and Latin Americans. I want to know these typical Americans, I want to break all the relationships with the previous life, I want to know and evaluate everything that Americans do. This is the moment I am shocked by the real cultural impact.
Soon, I found this idea is too shallow. You don't really understand Americans. You are always asked the same question: "Why do you come to the United States?" "Is it more better?" And the like. You can open the tape recorder to answer these questions. Then these problems turn to the latest movie, the nearest baseball or baseball game.
In Germany, the content involved in the discussion, despite more, but still boring. If you are invited to participate in a banquet, an important event, you need to spend a long time to understand each invited person. Even in the restaurant, you can talk about politics, economics, content, can even involve religion, the rich and poor, and any other impromptu topics.
Here, I feel that people avoid talking about controversial, different opinions or topics that make others unhappy. I have to learn this. Moreover, I tried to know the school and the school outside the school. Many people have been married. I think the real reason they marry is not to go to the movie alone. Even if there are so many people around, I still feel lonely. I don't touch anyone in them.
After half a year, I felt empty, gave up this life, and returned to the diversified life of the international group, and I met other Americans. I have a feeling like domestic, and I have a happiness. But this also has a worry, which is to stay with me for more than a year between Microsoft, and then return to China after Microsoft. When I have established friendship with them - because, once again, I spent a long time to integrate into the Circle of the Northern European. What is it? - They left. I think of a family, but I don't plan to find my wife in the United States, so I decided to leave. So I briefly talked about Microsoft employees in Munich, but they only have the work of technical support and sales, I am not interested.
A lot of new culture, enjoy your fun [Gerhardt] (2)
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Steve Ballmer stopped me in the lobby: "Gehart, I heard that you have to leave. What happened? What do you need, how can we keep you?"
I explain that I don't want to be developed again, I want to know what people do with technology. I am a person, I prefer to work with people.
He said: "Microsoft is planning to carry out consulting business, facing business customers. Why don't you talk to the head of the team?"
At that time, the personal computer became important, no longer just a type of typewriter or calculator. Microsoft decided to invest some people to those companies and told them that, we are your back shield. I have built a European team and a US team to do this work, I returned to German companies to carry out this work.
At the beginning of the 1990s, Microsoft developed rapidly in Europe. I started to understand Peter principle. According to this principle, people are always promoted to the position he can't compete. In a company like this, this will happen. Microsoft is too young, so that you can't attract advanced talents and it is not intended to pay high salary for advanced talents. This is destined to have enthusiastic young people, will make up for the lack of capacity of the ability to make up the enthusiasm of their efforts and enthusiasm to companies.
Some people can operate a project, such as a single product. They entered the market of Madagascar and quickly controlled the entire market organization. When only 3 people are all smooth, but when you have 30 people working for you, it is completely different. Things are always like this, they can't compete for work at this time. At this time, the product is still very popular because they are really good.
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European companies have a huge defect: language barriers. Even if there is a Microsoft competitor, they cannot be profitable because their market is too small. If they want to become greater and more standardized, they must be investive to make localization. To establish a logistics department, they have to set up a local underlying organization in every country. Another point is that there is no venture capital institution in Europe. Therefore, the only way is to loans to banks. However, for the bank, they don't want to make a charcoal in the snow.
Therefore, other companies can't compete, even if their companies are excellent. So the United States has come in and occupying the market of European universal software. But if it is a very professional or adaptive requirement, a very strong personality product, such as a satellite automatic control system (SAP), Europe's products or more.
As the pioneer of US companies, Microsoft is the first to understand the localization needs of the product, and it has indeed done the localization of the product. At that time, this is a huge advantage than Lotus and other companies. Even the market marketing of the product fails, these products can still be sold. It's even more big, which is why the United States is now the reason for the world. Some other companies have made mistakes when they gamble. It is worth noting that this era, Microsoft is the second entrant in each field. Once again, each competitor made a mistake first, and then opened the door for Microsoft's development.
For example, Lotus Company, under the OS / 2 operating system. IBM makes it believe that the Windows operating system is just a time, it is a flower, and OS / 2 will become mainstream. Lotus Company occupied the electronic watchmaking software market in the disk operating system era, representing the product is Lotus1-2-3 (1 is a spreadsheet, 2 is the database, 3 is a business drawing - translator's note). IBM convinced it to develop application software directly for OS / 2 operating systems, so that it will avoid competition and wasts time for WINDOWS operating systems. In this way, it is to write software for the next generation technology, not for the present technology. Lotus Company abandoned action on disk operating system, concentrated 80% of the power to develop software development for OS / 2. Of course, OS / 2 did not enter the market, it has fallen far behind.
Those who say that Microsoft can only get technical strength, and it does not create anything you have, it is just a crazy. If you want to think, you will know that all the technologies are not a wonderful policy, and it is the most important thing as possible. Have a good idea, is of course very good, but look at Xerox how far it takes it, you will understand some. (Xerox Parc) has integrated a research team in Silicon Valley, and they invented the mouse and creating a variety of graphical user interfaces and other innovations. These new ideas are displayed to include apples Company (Apple), Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and IBM and other companies. Apple later accused Microsoft "plagiarism" Apple's graphical user interface - in fact, this idea Xerox company's R & D team has already tried it. Apple and Microsoft Earn money from the idea of the graphical user interface, but the product of Xerox is not used.)
The key is that there is no relationship between the implementation of the technology, and whether there is a breakthrough technology. That is, the implementation of technology has made some things simplify without having to have good ideas.
Microsoft did not create electronic tabulation software. "Visicalc) * should be closest to the prestigious, but will there be a few people to know the name of Visicalc? The difference is that Microsoft has finally improved the continuous improvement of this idea through the incredible perseverance and refinement process.
Microsoft continually visits users, and says: "Use this product rather than that product, what will you bring to you?" How do you use it to further improve this product, so that most people can use it? This is not what a law machine is moved. This requires a lot of opinions and suggestions, and persistently improved.
Even if Microsoft is not the first to work in a field, because Microsoft has a lot of freedom in the finance, we can decide whether to turn money to those who are considered to be doing. The contribution of Bill is the foresight, and it will eventually be completed by strong decisions. Although sometimes I don't have to have a lot of things, and give up the efforts will be better, or think that this is not possible to travel immediately, but if we do this or so some work, we can make it through.
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Bill had several times, "Yes, when I didn't agree with Novell, and when I ignored the Internet, I did commit a mistake." In fact, he has nothing to do with that.
As long as Microsoft and any of IBM, DEC, Xerox, you can see that these companies have no ability to transform themselves. However, Microsoft has proved it once again and again. It can completely transform yourself. This is really surprising. This is mainly due to Microsoft's continuous restructuring company and reassign duties.
Microsoft is almost mad, this is extremely good. Microsoft is constantly thinking about what users need, what can be happy, can you bring to users? Therefore, Microsoft will grow in the market competition.
The Windows Operation Platform has been unbelievable in this industry. Yes, this operational platform is unique to a company. But if Microsoft is only drifting with the operation platform, it will soon become history. There are many companies that are constantly challenge us ... The Internet is so unpredictable, if Microsoft has no constant change, Linux (a Unix operating system that can be used - a multi-user computer operating system, running in general On the PC, the Sino-Japanese and Korean Governments are in combination with this operating system to fight against Microsoft's monopoly on the operating system market.) Will be replaced overnight. If Microsoft will increase the price to a certain height, this will bring serious problems, and Linux will undoubtedly replace it.
Can you share a standard operating platform? The Internet has brought more effective ways to cooperate. You see if something such as XML (Extensible Identity Language - Translator Note) activity can understand what kind of innovation has happened in that space, which is very surprising.
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From a certain extent, I have to improve the improvement in Microsoft. I want to be promoted to a higher level, but the interview with my manager value is just my past work, not the extensive work experience I have gained in different working characters. So when an old friend who has already left Microsoft told me to join a new company, when I started and competent, I went without hesitation.
Now I can integrate all experience into a role. Soon I became a president of technical president, supervisor all of the project, documents and quality assurance work. And in this company, I can also understand other departments, such as customer service, marketing, business expansion and information technology applications. The company is a new field for me, and it can further expand the horizons, I naturally feel comfortable.
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In such a working environment, everyone is stronger, and strives to make things best, which makes me have a chance to re-discover myself.
In Microsoft, if you deliberately cover your own mistakes, you will be exposed to your honest character, and your career path will also be affected.
In Microsoft, individuals have freedom to determine their own way, it is really exciting. Speaking exaggeration, Microsoft even give you enough strand, but you can decide yourself to hang.
In Microsoft, the entire company is like a university campus, you can easily find a friendly friend, which can release pressure from all aspects well.
In Microsoft, you will get another experience: bravely try new things. Don't worry, what will you do, don't consider whether you can succeed, just let go of your hand. For a blonde, a delicate silence, if she doesn't play football, riding and photography, then she can listen to the pet cat with the pet, elegant walk in the garden. When you are with others, as long as she can look down, I can lie in the slogan, laughter. However, Gina chose to work in Microsoft and become a brave person, although it is mixed with frustration. She reveals the kind of heartbreaking feeling when a favorite work and it's obsolete - she was forced to leave Microsoft, transfer to a technology company, and later returned to Microsoft.
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I started working in Microsoft since January 1989. At first as a contractor, less than 1 year later turned into formal full-time employees. I can't afford to work in the company, so I am very happy to inform them that I am about to resign. Although the company doesn't want to let me go, they don't say anything. My boss is still not stupid, I will go to Microsoft, who is willing to miss this opportunity? So he knows you can't stay.
Leaving that company, I came to such a new work environment. Everyone is stronger, and strives to make things best, which makes me have a chance to re-discover myself. I have already used a cabinet to put a work clothes, there is no more than some kind of conservative skirt, fiber shirt, high heels and nylon stockings, now these are quickly pressed to the bottom of the box. In the new company, I can fully express and release themselves, and I don't have to wrap myself in a thousand articular career all day. This feeling is really great.
In the past, others should understand that I first see my position. Everyone can certainly see what a person is doing from the secretary or administrative assistant. Now, people just pay attention to me in Microsoft, as for what I am in Microsoft's position, I don't care about it in Microsoft. My job is to work on Microsoft overseas software. Few people know that there is a localization, even my parents think that I am a translation. After many years, until recently, when I visited my parents, they also asked me: "Are you still translation?" I have to tell them that I have not worked in the International.
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I found that I went to work on the first day, I found that I want to get water like a fish in Microsoft. I have to be ready to be ready, I can't be eager to be indecisive, I don't understand what I need to learn, and I don't understand it. In short, I have to completely change my behavior.
Here I must be responsible for my decision. I have been accustomed to the working environment of the past: There will always be someone to check my work, people are used to deliberately concealing their faults and shirking responsibility, everyone is like this, there is no one. But in Microsoft, everything is just the opposite: If you deliberately cover your own mistakes, then how long will it be exposed, people will have doubts about your honest character, your professional road will also be affected.
This atmosphere has a great impact on my future development, I am very happy that I can get it, because I really adapted to this environment. In Microsoft, individuals have freedom to determine their own way, it is really exciting. Speaking exaggeration, Microsoft even give you enough strand, but you can decide yourself to hang.
Another interesting feature of Microsoft's work is that the entire company is too similar to a university campus, and people have to say this when people go to Microsoft. In fact, this is very important, so you can provide you with the atmosphere of different characters, you can easily find a friendly friend, and there is no such thing in other companies. This can release pressure from all aspects well. Microsoft's internal close-related social network is therefore, which is important for companies such as Microsoft. Because even a team is better in technology, if there is a lack of communication between players, it is impossible to make any coordinated products. I know that people there are trustworthy, especially those in the international department. I can still contact friends in the original team, although the team is dissolved, but the relationship is still there. When I need help, I don't have to spend a year and a half of the chapter. I have established interpersonal relationships with others. I have helped me, and they are also happy to extend their assistance. However, the current team is not as good as a family before, and the relatively close relationship is still rare than the rewear after the sun.
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It seems that there seems to have more and more stories about management. In these stories, the staff or the work they don't like, or if the manager does not appreciate them, it is always trying to leave but can't get out. In short, in the end, we have always been looking for an outline to end the story. In fact, it is not so difficult to find a way. Managers always want to leave people who want to walk. He will say to them: "Don't let it, we still need you in the next half year!" But the actual situation may be the team where I want to go. What is nothing happened. Nowadays, good people are as rare as rare wallets, usually in the team you work, you should find a good person, you should be devoutly thank God.
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For a manager who is willing to work without any employee, only to create a "small kingdom" can make management work will continue. I have found that there is more and more managers who make your entire management area. This is the case, the employees under her hand are not harmful, and those who can work hard for her, you can't get along with them. She is a very biased person, you either enter her small group, get reuse; either it is thoroughly abandoned by her, one sheet is not worth it.
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And Microsoft is full of passion, extensive interest, very professional, I have learned a lot. I am also much more generous than many people I know, although this is not much salary.
I also got another experience in Microsoft: bravely try new things. Don't worry about how you do it, don't consider whether you can succeed, just let go of your hand.
For example, I am going to participate in a cross-country ski, my friends have my brother, and a friend. I and him is just a place to pay, not very familiar, and the rest of the people have never met. In this case, I am usually very shy. If you have before, I have to get along with those who are flat, and those who have been tied to me. However, I felt very interesting, it was a wonderful trip.
I have also participated in a three-day carriage driving competition with a friend, and the game route is full of danger. No one can predict what kind of danger will be, you can suddenly have fallen out of the car, and even if you are being smashed out, we can do it forward. I was responsible for the memory route and to tell which way to drive the car in a very short time. I have a stopwatch in my hand, we must walk every route within a fixed time. If I am a mess, we will be eliminated. I also have a canoe. I was determined to overcome the fear of ski downhill, so I will receive training in an adult ski training course. This time, I have conducted a three-day rowing course training before the canoe, and then participated in the bamboo raft in Utah.
Prior to this, it was a trivial social activity in my life, such as going out to eat, watch movies, etc., rarely do some physical challenges or to deal with people I don't know. Even in the year of France, I couldn't change my shy personality. This is indeed the growth of my experience in Microsoft, which prompted me to accept these new things.
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My team has been reorganized, and finally I was positioned as a published printed expert, responsible for a large number of boring plans and coordination. Of course, this is Microsoft's investment to re-enter the school to study technical writing and editing degrees. In order to let me get more experience, my boss will go to other teams to internship, but it seems that there is no effect, I can't find an editor at all. This is really incredible. Although Microsoft has its own people in the board of directors who are authorized to authorize, there is no one to take these certificates. The managers began with the company's writers and editorial reform agreements, and they changed their full-time employees to contract workers, so those who have full-time work always wrapped with managers. All this is really frustrating.
Soon, my manager told me that after the last financial year, he could not make sure I can stay in this position. I have to make a decision, waiting for the contract expiration, receive a compensation for the full-time employee that is dismissed - a full-time employee working here, this will be a very considerable amount of money; or Immediately to other work groups in Microsoft to find a new position. I didn't get the goddess of lucky gods, I didn't find a job in other groups.
The residence meeting is a particularly frustrating thing. The staff of the Human Resources Department explains me after all relevant administrative policies, and asked me some questions and did a record. After that, she asked: "Why do you want to leave Microsoft?" When I asked this question, she had put the pencil on the table. Since this problem does not make a record, then what is the need?
I explained that I was fired. I have returned to the school to study, and I have worked hard for the company for almost five years, and the all of whom is very beautiful, but I am actually no one is willing to continue to hire me. . She said that she had heard similar things a few days ago, and that person even returned to my school's participation in the same. She also told me that she also wanted to return to school and attacked her master's degree in the professional master of interest. However, when she came back, Microsoft did not have a new position waiting for her new professional skills, so she gave up This idea.
It really wants to leave Microsoft, which makes me a very weird feeling. However, when I left, my manager made me feel very decent, that feels very special. He is one of the best managers I have ever seen, I am very grateful to him.
Soon I found a technological written job in a software company I called Akum (ACME). Saturday I picked up things in Microsoft, and I started working in Akam on Monday, it was simply horses.
Although I have worked for many years in Microsoft, I also passed the courses written and edited, and I have been doing a writing work, but some managers who have met, I think that writing work is too difficult to write. This is really a nonsense talker! I like to purate the potential of the staff in the employee is a part of the Microsoft corporate culture, but it is more willing to take my risk than to take my risk than the Microsoft. This is a change. Akim is a company that is very different from Microsoft. Although its customer engineering development department is also the same work as Microsoft's relevant departments. But after so many years of development, there is no reasonable programming work structure now, and I don't know who should ask. The document is also rare, so we have to look for useful information. When I encountered a technical problem, I always called the original Microsoft friend, because I don't know who should ask for advisory in the new company. I was shocked again. When Microsoft joined the International, it was also a last time. When you enter the team, you will get a small notebook immediately, which is filled with a variety of instructions on your work to every step.
Re-discovering yourself [Gina, Gina] (3)
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Akim is a miniature of true world: It is completely unable to be tolerated at all. There are many employees in the company to have married young couples, and most of them have children, so people usually go to work in accordance with the Jiu Nine-Nine-five job system. Although the elastic to work is not banned, it is more dead than that of Microsoft. In Akim, you can't see that people walk around the feet like Microsoft, or enjoy the freedom of individuals. Playing computer games is absolutely prohibited. You can enter the meeting room in the conference room with real poker cards in the conference room, but you can't play on your computer, destroying this rules are fried squid.
The atmosphere here is very strange in some ways, but this is a company that burst into a big money. The employees here will not become very rich, although the company always said that they have made the arrangement of listed, but in fact the company will never be listed.
The prospect here is also very different from Microsoft. I have a good job here, but I have almost all in the first two months, just in desperate look. I participated in each of them provided courses related to my work, and then checked every book in the barren library, and did everything I can be familiar with here, including all For management benefits.
Once we really start doing something, you will always encounter some of the key issues that are difficult to pass over. In Microsoft, we also encountered this situation many times. For a Microsoft employee, such a problem is home to the house; but for the people of Akim, these problems are simply difficult to go to you. Working with a relaxed rhythm makes me feel something slowly, but it is also good to relax in this way.
The disadvantage of working here is that people feel that they are second-flow, and even their own technology has become behind. I have been working out here, I think I will never catch up with the era. And in the two and a half years of this company, I just paid three kinds of friends.
In Akim's work, I am completely awake, everything here is reminding that my real world is like. The employees here have no priority, and there is no company's shares in his hand. They can only regularly deposit the money into the pension account, and they rely on salary support. So I seem to have only in Microsoft for future expectations.
Akim also has some bachelor, they don't have any family burden, but they still can't open their beautiful and expensive cars, and there is no good thing to enjoy in Microsoft. There are many people who have a lot of people who have found in Akim no one. These facts have made me fortunately I have stayed in Microsoft, so I have got everything you have gotten. I don't want to wander in the real world, I have to go back to Microsoft's fairy-like beautiful world. But I want to go back and not a thing like a blow, I started to wonder why my God is so unfair. I have worked in Microsoft and did it. During the course of a long time, other employees didn't be better than me, and I now need to fight here again. The whole thing makes my confidence.
Fortunately, I shortly after you have a chance to do a contract worker in Microsoft's MSNBC. It is not bad to come back, although I can't wear a blue badge (the card number of the full-time employee is blue).
When I went to Akim, I had a feeling that I was kicked out of a club. I left Microsoft's injury. In the back to Microsoft, I also made my heart and feel awkward, and I didn't know if I didn't know if the time was long. This feeling can dissipate.
The only thing that let me be wrapping, my current boss is being remembering, in order to avoid her retirement in advance, the company asked her to make a commitment within 3 years. I just worked in her, and she also hoped that I can succeed.
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Nowadays, it is difficult to see people who come into Microsoft with me. It is necessary to earn more money than the number of words in this book, so it is strange to see that it is still not left. Some people have chosen to retire, and some are intended to leave for a few years, so that I want to know what I should do next, I can't be like them. When I left, I got three pension subsidies, but I only used 1/2 and second 1/4 of the first one, and I haven't had to use the third copy. My broker suggests that I will buy things as much as possible, go buying the remaining loans that rely on mortgage equity, and those equity is the equity purchase plan of Microsoft employees, I started to accumulate. I adopted his suggestion, and it turns out that this is a clever choice.
I have a small savings. When there is any accident, you can have such a money to emergency, which makes me feel very practical. But in fact, this money is not enough. I will resign, or leave the cost of travel for 1 year.
A single friend invites me to her home to play. Her accommodation is a very distinctive old house, and each bedroom is hung up in a very coordinated curtain, and the linen of linen is paved on the bed, and the wall is also painted in a very beautiful color. She depicted her courtyard layout plan and intended to hire a courtyard designer to achieve her imagination.
I feel like the heart, I have been hoping to live like the heart. Before that, I have always thought that there is equal time between We we have worked in Microsoft, and it is also single, but the result is very different, this is too shocking. When everything comes, she has enough money to buy a house, according to their intentions, then choose to retire.
I also have a house, a size still suitable apartment. It is true that it is true, but my house has neither renovated, and there is no powder brush with the room layout. I have to take into account my own financial problems, because I have spent the money in general.
I also know that in Microsoft has some employees that have never received any stock options. Since they didn't have this kind of thing, I never raised such topics when chatting with them. I am sorry for this, but they still have employee stock purchase plans and pension programs. I have also heard that many employees sell their own stocks but still work, because they have sold out the shares on their heads up early. If this person is me, I think I will regret it.
Re-discovery of self [Gina] (4)
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It may sound is not such a thing, but I have already suffered too much pain in this matter of being forced to leave Microsoft. Until recently, I still can't figure out how I was excluded from Microsoft.
Why do I have to be fired? Why is the person being fired is me? Which game rule I happen? Now is the answer to the answer. All people who left the International I have found the work in other working groups in other work groups, whether they have a suitable degree, or have a special training, this is nothing to do.
I have also been so close to success. I have been trying to do my job and have a good record. But I have to leave my post, and then watch most people are just wasting their time, while also telling their friends, I have not interesting to this work. So I made a decision, I want to find a favorite job in Microsoft. If I can't find such a job, I will not find a position to wait for the retirement. Sometimes, I really regret my decision. I hate chatting with people waiting for retirement. I don't want to live a living, because I don't think it is very honest.
I really want to say that I do what I did is right, but I am more willing to do more interesting things. So if the time returns to the past, will I find a non-favorite living in Microsoft?
This feeling is like rushing to the boat but it is a late step. Sometimes I am in a stuffy, sometimes I feel that I am selling by the company.
I really want to make a little thing for my family, but I can't do it. If you can meet their needs, how good it is, but I have a wrong choice, otherwise I can really take care of them.
Later, I have never talked about my friends who don't work in Microsoft. They didn't know much about what I said. This makes me feel awake, realizing that everything I can have now is very fortunate.
I have had the opportunity to knock on the door of the wealth, and I have those money that can achieve my dreams, but those people don't even have this opportunity. However, I have made the mistake of the dream, but I knocked the wrong door ...
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I logged in to the internal web page with my stock option record. I just want to know how much subsidies can I give me when they re-employ me. I found all my subsidy history, and even those who used to be mine but now they are no longer. I have to count, if you count what kind of subsidies are calculated, there will be a lot of $ 2,700,000.
I cried, and now I still cry for this. I really want to slap yourself, why don't you sell a subsidy? Why don't you find a position in Microsoft to wait for a job? I hate those guys in the Ministry of Human Resources, why do they want me to see these records? I really want to send them an email. Please help me delete those data, but I hope that they will remain there, let me always know how stupid it is.
Microsoft has potential to change human [Edward] (1)
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Microsoft has potential to change humanity, because it always maintains a high level of pressure, strive to do faster, more province, better, and win the market. For many companies, even with the best people, the best team, this is also an extremely difficult goal.
From the past absorption experience and active role in new projects, and believe that they will win the respect of the team, this is one of the precious wealth I learned from Microsoft.
Edward is a thin guy who has a rock singer, and some love brags. He always has a lot about his crazy unexpected story in his hard career, and because he is both a logical engineer, it is also a creative and courageous musician, so there is always beautiful and laughter. He will talk about the interesting thing of Microsoft Management Program, and those who have encountered in his career. ◆
I am very interested in computers - I have written procedures for managing all attendance and timetable for the high school in Canada. My secretary with the number of personnel attended himself, she could get an extra help from the procedure I have written, so the days of the holidays for me because of "good health", and closed a eye.
During my high school, I learned from the third grade of Computer Science University. Unbelievable is that I am very eager to learn more. I played a keyboard when I was very young, so I was passionate about two things: music and computer.
When I want to think about college, I have been famous in the List of Power Engineering System in Waterlu University. Through this system, I can meet my understanding of how the machine is working in the electronic level. During the university's internship, I stayed in Toronto IBM branch for 5 years. Once again, I was attracted by all the procedures of the PC, that is, when I first came into contact with Microsoft.
When I graduated from 1987, I went to Microsoft, Northern Telecom, IBM, and Bell Northern Research. Interview. However, Microsoft makes me feel a lot, because it makes me feel very comfortable when I am interview.
When I started to make a developer of an OS / 2 operating system in Microsoft, I was only 23 years old. There are 1,500 employees there. Initially, I feel uncomfortable as a foreigner working at 3500 miles from the past "living place".
IBM was a good place to work, paying 1.5 times more than 8 hours and 2 times a salary for 2 times Sunday, as well as a free meal. I am crazy, working on cold ice tools all day, such as PC / AT (an architecture of IBM's personal computer in IBM), etc., such as official release. Here I earn more money ($ 35,000), earning more than 1/3 of Microsoft, I only earn $ 27,000 than the first year.
I worked in Microsoft for 12 to 16 hours a day. In the first 5 years, I have been working for more than 2 months every 3 to 4 months. It works for 7 days a week, working for 16 hours a day. Every employee who works there is like this, there is no meeting without a meeting, and you are always assumed why you know.
Even sometimes you will work for 22 hours, in which case you are fully occupied, and there is no time and atmosphere to make you more efficient by sharing information. This makes Microsoft lose its potential - excavating the potential of employees.
When I was working, I like to observe first and then pointed out. Things don't appear in the way they originally presented: You must find what is really important, what is the purpose, what is going to develop, what is what is done, what is the type. But my head two managers gave me the impression that they think I am a smart person, I should know what I know. This makes it difficult to ask questions or admit your ignorance. I think that a great man can do it. If you don't have something yourself, you will be considered weak.
There is only one way to get the required information by everyone. In the company's social banquet or conference, employees studying different projects can talk to each other and share information because they are not with you. When everyone is working, I can sit down after drinking a few glasses of beer. I don't understand what you don't understand.
The more you talk to others, the more you have a whole, and work will become easier. The facts also prove that you have strive for your upstream of the food chain, and things have become better; or you have resources to complete the task, or you can let others solve the problem. Participation is more interesting, you can also relieve stress slightly, because everyone does not have to work alone in the whole 10 hours to take out what they have. Not long after, there will be a group of people there in the party, but the mutual talks between the two will stop.
I have never been done in the two or three weeks after Toronto, it seems that there is still nothing. It is just to sit on a bench whole day. I asked myself to come to this, what is the same as the hell? When you do this, you will feel that you will do it, no lonelker? The family is not here, and even an ordinary friend is not.
After a few weeks, I tried to make friends with others, and people with people, which made me feel better. Looking back, there are many factors affect my emotions. In cultural, Canadians seem to be very passive. Even if I imagine me, I am far from a typical Canadian, but this is my own color, including loneliness and fear of failure. Of course, I am very clear about what I should do next step, I have to do myself, and I have worked hard to make myself a spring breeze.
Some things in the work don't look like it looks like it: people are full of blushing in OS / 2, but those "latent" is true and affect the entire team. So far, we still can't get up. At this time, Ballmer did a speech that he had milestone, named "We are facing the moment of going to the abyss, either climb the peak moment". In fact, this is also a part of today's software product prescription, and we don't know that we are writing a living textbook.
Microsoft has potential to change human [Edward] (2)
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According to statistics, Microsoft has already appeared after this project with IBM. We are responsible for operating the kernel part of the system, and IBM is responsible for interface management - Windows application programming interface. We must start with the side, and we must complete 50% of work, but we only use approximately 1/4 of employees to do this project.
My team is blown as important as the top beam column. As a special forces, we quickly came to solve the individual problems left by the original equipment manufacturer. But interesting is that my team knows very little about everyone. We didn't have tools, have to fight with the machine, and we are the last found problem. The original equipment manufacturer uses a new but not well-decorated chip, so when our code is unable to run, it is impossible to judge the problem of the chip or the problem of software. Although these things are small, it is amazing.
Our mission is so important for the success of OS / 2, because we have to communicate with the original equipment manufacturer, but also have to do any position at any time, but also choose the right equipment. And with a lot of time spending the different project teams can interact, maybe we have to do more things. There are huge amounts of huge, bored work, and we can't expect to hire someone else to solve the problem (you have to spend time training in every newcomer), you must distinguish between the real and manager.
When the color of the crossroads decline, when he heard the arrangement of the project schedule to keep up with the project schedule, you finally understand the so-called "schedule", the so-called "final deadline", the so-called project is purely nonsense.
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My work in Microsoft is unusual: I am involved in the 90% project eventually canceled, which makes me an expert in developing a destined failure project. Soon that you can contact these projects, it is observed that these projects are destined to fail, especially like "tarisman", seems to be a special display failed. I think this is like a greed of people aware that I will die and grabbed my bliss. These failed items include OS / 2, Lanman, WinLogin, Microsoft At Work (later, the prototype of Windows CE), Talisman, Rifff, MSN, and a project that has no name and unhearded, I called these items "Amody return".
Obviously, there are 3 consequences of failing to make a failure: less salary, less stock options, and more difficult to hop to better work. Failure has a huge dung on roll from the mountain, and each team member is involved in it regardless of his personal performance. Worse, as I said to my boss, it is the management of the management that the team has caused these three consequences, not to blame the project itself, so we can only hold the fence: " Although it is good, the high-level does not like this project, so we have to swallow this feces. "
When analyzing where MSN 2.x products, I am sure that my 20 people are very clear. I am deeply proud of my work and team. When our department is unfairly treated, I am grateful to each of them. I will send an email to every person in charge of the department, and send it to all other people, saying a lot of gratitude. This e-mail is well suppressed by the ban on the morale due to the failure of the project, and won the respect for me.
It is to treat your team and see you frankly, this is the minimum to do as a supervisor. Because they gave up the weekend time, and they didn't want to take care of their families - they even complained to their dreams and expectations. For me, this is always the first chapter in my project development manual.
It can be said without hesitation. From a software development engineer to the time of a project manager, it is my best time in Microsoft. There are two reasons: First, you have to have a clear understanding of the difficulties in front of you, follow you must indicate the target to others. This is unbelievable: authorizing others to work; ideas overall blueprints; and have confirmation capabilities, ensuring that everyone (one of them is also one) is fully promoted to complete this work efficiently. But things are more than this, you have to manage your departments and your person in charge of your subordinates, so that they always keep awake, this is the best way to prevent serious out of control.
I have more expensive over the project management, and things are progressing very quickly and I will get improved. In 1 and a half years, I was responsible for 6 projects and was promoted to the competent level.
This difficult experience in tough days, failed projects, and the ability to reflect a failure project, and I can maintain calm habits in all situations, all have a profound impact on me later. From the past absorption experience and active role in new projects, and believe that you will win your respect, this is the most valuable wealth I got from Microsoft.
My biggest harvest is always not ashamed to ask questions, but ask as much as possible. I propose questions about the project that I participated. I propose questions about their work arrangements. I will see the question as an effective means of increasing transparency. I think what makes me happy and thinking about my career goal. Asking questions make the road more clear, making the selection easier, making it clearer. It makes me more than the technical field, and will also run through my future life.
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Microsoft has potential to change humanity, because it always maintains a high level of pressure, strive to do faster, more province, better, and win the market. For many companies, even with the best people, the best team, this is also an extremely difficult goal. When I started leaving the University to Leidmond, the strong career made me all the best, I want to do a project. Busy, slamming, crazy, then put into the project. After the project failed, he started repeating the previous life, and after the project has changed, it repeatedly, and repeated it again after a large reorganization. I maintain strong energy and continue to work. I am a self-responsible Microsoft citizen, do my best to make my part of my part - I did 5 to 7 years.
Microsoft has potential to change human [Edward] (3)
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However, one thing happened one day. That day, I realized that my lawn had 3 feet high. I have a bunch of bills that have not been opened, and my girlfriend has left; worse, I found it when I work hard as a slave, She is in the arms of others. So the change begins.
I have begun to pay attention to my group meeting more stubborn. For schedules, agreement, and indication is increasingly suspected. My words have gradually become thin.
More changes have occurred.
In other aspects of life, my patience is slowly growing. Now I am more thorough, and in order to make the plan to reality, I will have more and more tough when necessary. I hope to complete the job with faster speed, fewer costs, more effective ways. I have no time to waste on those who can't catch progress.
I feel that I have been assimilated - the resistance has never been a problem, I become a molecule of collective.
If you go to Microsoft, after working for a while, you will hear someone to say that you are a harsh person. You will also hear the criticism of people outside of Microsoft: You are arbitrarily, it is difficult to get along with it. No matter which case, you will let others walk extreme, and you will get a certain degree of success.
You will dominate most people you have touched.
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In Canada, I have a girlfriend, we intend to keep a long relationship, but when I came here, the situation changed. We are still so young, and the environment here is so exciting, and there are two or three gatherings every week. There are so many things to do, so many new experiences are waiting for us to try.
We were arranging together in incorrectly. We - a group of people who are away from the country are like a group of clowns hanging together. I would rather chat to the bar and some people who look very attractive, I would rather see them to react consistently: "Microsoft? Why will a company call such a name?" If you are a man, you will always get this from the woman. reaction. So my answer is: "That is Bill's company, not mine. I am hired to help change the impression."
In Canada, when you leave someone else with you, you need you to play 600 pounds at the same time, or the first five lines of oil, or quickly jump. But the women there will become incompetent, I want to pursue them to pay more. Once you got them, very good, they will be very loyal, but first you have to do a lot of work. I used to make yourself charming and humble, just to please women to watch movies. And when I came here, I've been ate. I can't believe that I invited a woman to go out and act so easy, even a bit of people feel ridiculous, go to the bar just as simple as fishing in the bucket.
I dare not packing the ticket saying that this is the cultural difference in the United States and Canada, but the woman here is very confident. Women are very avant-garde, they will invite you to go out, let you know that they are very interested in you. My Canadian girlfriend is a bit quiet, I don't like it. She came here to participate in an interview, and later I found that the lawyer helped by our dating has been paying attention to the whole thing. She did not affect this matter, but I found that my girlfriend did not find a job. Lawyer assistant tells me that I don't have to worry about my relationship with her, because now my life is here. This is a new experience: a woman is the Lord, telling me how to live. Microsoft's woman has a certain confidence, there is a certain charm, and my woman I encountered outside Microsoft is not very interesting. I used to live for 5 years with a Microsoft girlfriend and planned to marry, but in the end, I changed my mind. Because I feel that I haven't experienced my single life, I don't want to end so early. This is a little private, but it is always better than the end of the divorce. But I still like to maintain a stable relationship in my life. This way I can pursue it in the future, and I can cultivate my relationship network.
I found that some women in Microsoft shared the information they would have to have a man. They sent an e-mail to tell the other person to eat, and if the man dating is a big hand, is it interesting, whether I have been with him, whether it is strong, and it is skilled. They actually rated men.
Once I took a woman going out to eat, she told me that she knows what I will do or something, because she has seen it. I want to see their database, but unfortunately, I have not been allowed.
The party stopped in the early 1990s, because Microsoft is too big at this time. In the end, I am tired of my rankings in the database of Microsoft women's database, and about 5 years did not date them.
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Later, I was fascinated by a gorgeous, blonde woman in a bar. She is beautiful, charm, self-confidence, sexy and beautiful, I was concluded by her. When I went out with her, I found himself lost all the feelings of nearly two years.
I said to myself, well, it is her, I want to marry her. No matter what happens, you will have her. We both waiting for the other party to marry, but no one did this.
I have columnized a list for what we have to do before our marriage. For example, how to set up a bank account, how to work, how to engage in the pre-agreement, and how to establish a budget. The philosophy of our belief is that if we don't even talk about it, what is going on? And talking about these before marriage, you have to talk about more than marriage - ugly words in the head.
As I expected, when she heard this, very surprised, said that when we spent the next month, he talked about these too beautiful scenery ... Old God! She also said that if I really love her, we don't have to worry about those things, and she is willing to stay with me for a lifetime.
From pure idealism, when the marriage, if it is possible to be in love, it is also a thing. But now, I will look at it, I really should make a difference in the list.
Microsoft has potential to change human [Edward] (4)
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She disagree with the pre-marriage agreement, but as an engineer, I have a professional habit - always develop a remedial plan, sometimes more than one. I found a lawyer to talk about it. He suggested that I signed a marriage agreement, I told him that this is impossible, and there is no room at all. Later, he told me to distinguish the property, keep your own important voucher, and how to build a bank account can make our accounts not mix. My wife knows that I will do this because she refused to marry before the agreement. She must hope that I am just doing some articles on the surface, but I have no wish. In general, my parents are with me. Our family is harmonious, the relationship is harmonious, but now they have left me. I am very shocked. I feel that they don't know how to change, I can't justify them, they are escaping the reality. They can't see my wife's personality, I am too old, I have been married twice, and I have children. One night before I got married, my mother told me that no one was forced to do what I didn't want to do, but I looked so many people who came to celebrate the wedding, I feel that I have not retired.
On the day of the wedding ceremony, everyone has left the house when I woke up. I wonder why no one woke me up in the morning? It's very strange, where are you going? Is it not alone in such a day? I have a weird feeling all day, I feel that everyone doesn't pay attention to me. I don't know what else, so I came to the storage room of the tower, wandering it, until it turned some vertigo, I plan to leave. At the time, I wanted to drive anywhere, or where I can fly. I don't want to get married, but I don't know how to handle this thing.
For me, there is no precedent to refer to, and I don't know what to do, so I will go out. At the morning, the morning was not married. When I was going to finish it, she hit my mobile phone saying: "You will go home on time." I have left the fantasy, and finally the heart is seven At home.
If life can give me a chance to come back, I am sure and friends sit around the table, we will chat with beer while lunch, I will tell them the words; I will also Will not be so confused, it will definitely have something to gain, and there must be a friend to help me make a plan, advise me not to get married. If that, I will guarantee that I will cancel the wedding of that day.
I came to the wedding scene, and I killed 6 cups of beer within 15 minutes. I really want to stand up and announce: this is a party, not a wedding ceremony. But doing this to bear too much pressure, I don't dare to ensure that I can bear it.
So I got married in a noise.
Even if you are a millionaire, you don't mean you can buy everything you want now. But my wife is not like this, for her, there is no money to make a gentleman. After the wedding was held, she wanted to buy a better house, buy a car, travel with her children; and she gave her a surprise for her child in the weekend, did not hesitate to spend Tens of thousands of dollars. And the only thing I can do is to sell my stock regularly to meet her overhead.
I built a professional studio in my house, where I wrote a song, recorded music - I used the musical instrument keyboard in the past few years to play music, obviously, this is also a lot of overhead.
Wife doesn't like me to get music, complaining almost every day, I have to send my own time according to her thoughts. I can't help but I started stopping to adapt to her and her children, and I will do things according to my own will, not what she makes me do. The number of times I go home is getting less and less.
I didn't talk to my friends, because this made me feel very embarrassed. But there is no non-winding wall in the world, and everyone knows. So almost everyone told me not to treat their mother and son like this, but I think this is my personal problem, I will deal with it. I didn't tell my mother this matter. Until the day after marriage, I took him with a friend when I was sitting down, and I told him that my nearest situation was. He suggested that I will give my parents - this is a great suggestion! I called my parents, they said that no matter what I decided, they all support me. If I decide to divorce, they will also support me. Mother tells me, don't force yourself to do things you don't like. "If a thing must happen, then take action to protect yourself." It is undeniable that the mother is determined to determine the determination of divorce.
I started working for myself, and I have a divorce relationship: I ended my family, abandon my wife and her children, and I returned to single.
After about 11 months we got married, I was on your business because of the things on music. My wife has long been looking forward to my business trip, take this opportunity, she called her ex-husband, helping her out. Her children are already ready, so they will get it quickly. She rented another apartment, took an empty bank deposit, overdrawn the maximum amount of credit card, all the things have a lawyer to help her, obviously a premeditated.
When I returned home, almost family four walls. Everything she wants is taken away, including computer, garbage basket, waste paper, the home in the kitchen I have prepared before marriage, there is a trunk, shower head, etc. from my parents. Wait. That's my shower head!
Although I still don't believe this is true, but the next day, I received a "divorce agreement".
It's not that I have such an experience, some of my friends have also been similar. In the past, I went out with others and never considered the economy. But now, I will. Before I pay, I will consider it will not be like this - what else wants me to pay? What do you want to think about the purpose of women, why she wants to date with you. I am not biting by the snake, ten years is afraid of a well rope, but I want to always be always true.
Microsoft has potential to change human [Edward] (5)
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When you need money, you know how much money is, this is how comfortable thing, I often call this "sugar-coated gun". When you encounter a problem, pull out the sugar-coated, aim, launch, and then solve the problem. There is no doubt that when you get out of Microsoft, you will find that you have a very self-confidence. It is very strange until you decide to leave Microsoft, you will experience the impact of Microsoft's work on you. Because everyone who has worked almost have stocks, this right, as you leave Microsoft, the smoke is disappeared.
When you make your dream come true, you will feel that the money is great! However, in this process, money will make you passively. This is an interesting question. You use your wealth to enhance your confidence, and you are using this self-confidence every moment, so you have an obligation to pay huge taxes.
I lost I thought that I think I have 40% of wealth. At this time, I realized that when I was hired in Microsoft, Microsoft's project took up my personal tax-free part. I actually took me to avoid tax. When I left Microsoft, I made me to bear so much tax. I simply think I jump into a trap - taken more tax burden.
In short, you have to be careful, otherwise you will be unknowingly used by others. Seriously, my tax in the first year is more than the money that I plan to spend in my life. Why do I have to pay so much? There is always a variety of uncomfortable appearance. Not something can produce benefits on the business field. You will receive a phone from your friends, and those who know those who do business, they intend to find investments for their dreams. Soon, you will be good at reading something bad, preparing insufficient business plan, and how to avoid some calls for some searching.
The best part of your wealth is your identity of your self. When you recognize your goals, there will be incomparable fun, and no one or what government agency can take your self-fulfilled feelings to you. All taxes, heavy emotions, for a while, and those who are with you with you without anyone, you will not take your personal achievements.
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For me, move to the United States, enter Microsoft is all my plans. I always want to build a free home studio, can write a shadow, work with those who I admire, work together, and finally I can make a movie. I have also involved in the stock market, in order to earn a little money to support my music enthusiasm.
In Microsoft's last year, I made a harsh timetable. I have to do 3 things a day. Get up at 6 o'clock in the morning, then do stock trading, until 10 in the morning, I went to work to work, this is 6 o'clock in the evening, I either go to the studio either to rehearse the song, which has been 11 o'clock in the evening, one afterwards I will see some financial magazines, then go to sleep. This day is another day. After leaving Microsoft, I have to spend more time can spend on the stock market (I will be very excited to do stock investment) and music (I can release my enthusiasm).
I completed my first record "Treason) at the end of 1997. Allen White, Billy Shewood is the main member of the legendary rock band "YES". Allen is the drummer of the band, has been engaged in this profession for 25 years. I met Allen in 1993 and became a good friend - I took him as my big brother (I haven't had a brother). Let's share the love of music, jointly pursue technical progress, telling the story on our respective journey, spend the birthday of only one day, and drinking the beer of us.
After four months I left Microsoft, the "Yes" band plans to go to Japan to take a tour performance. I have always wondered to experience the East, so I can't find a better guide than "Yes". So I told Allen, I'm going to go, very smooth, the band and I made an appointment.
I and other staff of the Allenbi band fly to Tokyo two days in advance, we will meet with Jon Anderson, and then see Chris Scc and Billy Wood next day. We have a beer together, and Billy asks if I know why I will in Tokyo; I still tell me that their electronic keyboard is a problem when they have a immigrant, ask me to join. I have always thought that he was kidding until they hang "Yes" photo on the wall of Lake, my smile appeared in the photo center, I believe it.
During this time, I have encountered a great writer of Seattle, named Susan Enes. Susan is the secret weapon of Anhe Nanxi Wilson. I have written a very melancholy song, named "Rotating", I took the copy of this song to Susan. Susan felt very good, very liked, so we made a further discussion. Later, I changed to a happy and pleasant song, it was unbelievable, and I plan to be a song of my next "rebellious" record. I and Susan came together for the entire record, and one of the songs made An Wilson sings.
I spent 1 year and a half years of writing, recording, making the second record and record company, I made work in several studios. I think this record is very good, just like my heart. At the same time, I got a lot of legal and business experience in this entire production process, and I was fortunate to work with important people in the student circle. This job is the truly left brain and the right brain, precious and have a sense of accomplishment. At this point, I left Microsoft for two and a half years. Do I miss it? I found that I have been scratching my head when I answer this question, but it is strange that Many of Microsoft really deserves my miss. The following two things are what I did directly, sustained technology instill and the big community provided by Microsoft. Many things in big companies are not available in small companies and even their companies. Although I like the creative control power provided by your company, it is not an absolute control in our daily work, but the diversified environment given by Microsoft.
Microsoft has potential to change human [Edward] (6)
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I know that my company can go, or can make substantive contributions to the company, whether it is Microsoft or other companies, this is a wonderful feeling. Change is definitely a cultivation of life, making you have the ability to change between interest, skills, and passionate make our life more colorful.
Success is the continuous effort [Skott] (1)
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I am very grateful to my career in Microsoft. Here I am learning technology, get confidence, make friends, of course, I also earned money. Now, I think my life is successful. In my life, there is people I love, I have my favorite work, I am satisfied with myself and the environment. For me, success is to be a thoughtful, kind, curious, humorous, and have a manifestative person, success is to continue to work hard. This success can be reached anywhere. This success will keep us clear when we act as a group. I found that Many of Microsoft have similar success.
Scott's face is like the face of the characters in the medieval oil painting, the face is elliptical, the skin is smooth, slightly somewhat deep, medium body type and height, color color, and eyes are the same. He is a quiet guy, friendly, low-key and easy to communicate. He talked about his professional experience in the technical department, questioning Microsoft's corporate culture, and made a change in money to his life. We discussed questions like people who love and leisure, providing personal financial guidance to others from the topic of neighbors.
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I can work in Microsoft is a camping trip from 1985. My sister and my sister invite me to participate in the first year of early summer camping travel, it is the carnival in the woods. My sister introduced me to her friend, and her friend is responsible for managing a group of people working in technical writing in Microsoft. That weekend we just made a short conversation, but I got her business card.
Soon, I called her, ask if there is any job opportunity. Debi asked why I am willing to be a text worker about technology.
"I just want to write." I told her, "I want to freely dominate my own time." Debie later admitted that my remarks about the time of governments attracted her. She invited me to have lunch, after some writing samples, she agreed to provide me with a paid internship.
Soon, I have participated in the internship work written for Microsoft's operating system technical documentation. Our team wrote a descriptor manual for the manufacturer of this operating system, and rewritten the documentation with this factory-specific product support. I am the 10th employee of this department, and is the third male employee in it is a molecule in approximately 800 employees. I feel that I am not a typical staff. Many colleagues around me are the Changchun Union Union (organized by 8 famous private colleges in Northeast US). Established in 1956. These 8 colleges are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmens College University, Pennsylvania University, Princeton University and Yale University. In addition to Cornell University, other colleges have established a graduate of academic level and social reputation before the US independence war, and have Rich computer knowledge. In daily work, I am in a group of smart, have been well-educated, have a mentally and energetic talent. And they compared to them, all my experience in computer is just a summer, a summer, a Kaypro (a personal computer brand-translator note) computer, running a CPM operating system in a summer in the Witman's text laboratory. And text star text processing software. I feel like a first-year student who takes tutoring, which is allowed to play in a high-grade physics laboratory.
Debi took me into a narrow office in the middle, with a hard oak table at the end, a computer and a 9 volume file on the table. On the first day, I have read such a multi-registered word about the script, command line interpretators, and editors, so that I got a buse of buses in the afternoon.
I know the direction is wrong, but I have not ignored it. I have to leave this car far away, then come back to restore your body and mind.
Later, the work became challenging, but I was still eliminated. I also realized that there will be a few weeks of task here, but sometimes it is relaxed; it is also found that the customer actually read and the instructions I have written in the manual is less than 1/4. Planning, analysis, drafting, testing, modification, reciprocating the instructions that have been completed, this is my job. By studying in Microsoft, I can write a manual smoothly, which makes me feel comfortable, and I plan to write with my style.
In the 1980s, Microsoft was known for a long time. There is indeed this, but it is not entirely like this. Some people have worked very late, but most work hours in the long working day will generally do not exceed 8 or 9 hours.
Many young employees stay at work in a job a day, because their friends are there. Many people in them are not Washington. When they come to Redmond, there is almost no friends or family here. Many people live in their respective apartments, and they are often living with one person. In addition to work, they have a small contact with people. However, when working, they were surrounded by the same age, with similar educational background, nation, job, hobbies, taste, and more.
When these people spent more than one hour in the self-catering restaurant, they were not unpleasant, sometimes playing beach volleyball, or riding a bicycle for a long time on the foot of the cascades. Of course, they worked at least 12 hours a day, but they also spent two hours of time to recreate, completely open work to relax.
Microsoft advocates this lifestyle. These young employees are directly recruited from the university. They called the company's headquarters "Campus", the building inside is like a university's dormitory - there are many rooms on both sides of the promenade, and there is a small kitchenette and small sofa. There are forest-shaded trails, ponds, buffet restaurants, playgrounds, fitness equipment, and storage rooms.
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In the days to leave Microsoft, I started criticizing the company's self-intoxicating way. For example, when everyone is working in the product department, I was invited to the company center's football field, where there is a free barbecue picnic, soda, music, and entertainment, and the carnival is kept until the Christmas party. Success is the continuous effort [Skott] (2) ----------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------
Once everyone's emotions are mobilized, the vice guides of the Ministry of Human Resources will go to Taiwan and thank you for your efforts and outstanding contributions. In Microsoft, he designed a new way to assess our work. I am looking forward to the implementation of new policies - let go of public vacation. Or we can rest for a few days after completing a project. Many people have taken a few days to restore them in order to complete the project.
The deputy chief seized the transparent resin tablets and said: "This ..." Just like Moses to perform on the stage, "is a boat - your prize!"
Everyone we will get this thing, which is engraved with our name and the company thank you. Later, whenever we complete a new product, we will receive a small label, with the name of the product, we can put it on the transparent resin sheet. Years of year, see these labels, think that Microsoft is grateful to our contribution.
I feel that I was humiliated. His innocent thinking that a plastic film can make me feel better about the pressure of the pressure? All of these rewards remind me how much time and paper for Microsoft? In order to achieve this resolution?
Back to the office, I sent an email to the person who was the director of this new prize (Ship-IT Medal), asked why I didn't have this. Obviously I don't think I am alone. Two days later I received a reply from the deputy director of the Human Resources Department. Although the title is a bit wrong, it can still be seen that it is about the SHIP-IT medal. In the letter, the letter is introduced to this reward plan to operate and this reward will not have stock options. However, through this introduction, I got the transparent resin glass prize I should get in one time.
My colleague Mike, a prize took home to throw it into the fireplace. He was surprised to find that the synthetic resin quickly burned in the furnace and released a lot of heat. He feels that if his house does not have a glass door, the entire building he live will be burned.
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As a manager, I started participating in the employee's evaluation process in the final career of Microsoft, developing the salary increase plan and bonus amount. I found that not only personal performance in the assessment is important, and the overall situation of the department is also more or less considered. Once the employees have been assessed, we will arrange the percentage of promotion and rewards according to the standards developed by the company. We allocate a percentage like a normal distribution curve, which will not deviate too far from the average. After the manager meeting, we should advocate team spirit in our employees, but later steps don't do it.
Because there are time-limited constraints, managers determine the level, improvement and specific reward programs before the employee submitted their summary table. This looks very dark, especially when I feel that one of my editors did not get what he should have improved and reward. This summary system should be at least condemned, but my timidity and lack of experience is one of the reasons. I am still very uneasy about it today.
As a Microsoft employee, my best way to write money for the future is the stock option, which is the right to purchase the company's ordinary stock stock in the future. Over time, progress, plus a little luck, the price of stocks will rise, and the option price will remain unchanged. Any increase in the value of stocks will be turned into my pocket in my pocket.
As part of my Assessment in November 1986, the company rewards me to buy 1000 stocks of Microsoft ordinary shares in $ 30. This option is very good, and the appreciation in 4 and a half have been raised quickly, and this trend has been maintained for 10 years. In some other assessments, I got some options, although there was no first time. Microsoft is announced in the afternoon of every Sunday, it is usually published on the computer network around 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Its appearance is something that is considered a watery. If the situation in the afternoon, I have nothing to do in the final deadline, there is no meeting, very few or no email, the closing price is a release means I can go home, in the sunset through Seattle A pontoon across Washington lake, how beautiful. At this time, traffic jams must not be tolerated.
However, if the progress is very bad, this means that I have to spend a 12-hour working day, and the operations should be repeated during this period to match the software that is redesigned with the last minute. I will close the door in the office to repeat the quotation of the day. Once the stock market releases a new data, I will enter it into a computer with magical power, let it run quickly: subtract option prices from the current price , Multiplied by the number of remaining stocks, deducting a certain percentage of income tax and retirement savings, showing the final result at the end of this page.
At that moment, I am in the fantasy, if I will resign so much, have so many money, what will life! But the idea of resigned at that time just supports the tools I am. Then, I sighed, shut down the data form and started working again.
At those very much, very pleasant afternoon, it will receive a stock split notice every two years. Everyone will ran out the office, cheer, jump, and tell those people who are still working. Stock segmentation means that the board decides that each of the people owns the stock another amount of stocks. The number of stocks this will double, but the price per share has become 1/2. From the literal mean, the value of stock value has not changed, and it is worth cheering.
However, stock segmentation will affect stock options and stocks. My 1000 US $ 30 of $ 30 will become a 2000 share of $ 15 per share. When stocks continue to segment, it will turn to 3,000 USD $ 10 per share, then 6,000 shares $ 5 per share, so. If the stock price becomes $ 100 per share, it becomes $ 50, then rose to $ 100, then the value of the stock option is doubled. If you multiply thousands, then you will get a lot of money.
Success is the continuous effort [Skott] (3)
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Whenever the news of stock segmentation is coming, it is very difficult to just let it stay in my heart, because I don't have stock options around me. Of course, all the programmers and managers have, but those new writers, editing and testers don't. Those administrative assistants don't, but these young girls always do things that should be made by the young guys ensure that the organization can run.
After a few years, the distribution of stock options has become very open, and I don't work hard or make anything to celebrate the relevant stock. But every stock segment other people will continue to celebrate. My colleague Christopher's performance is a weird property show: a millionaire on a paper, and he is like a large paper lantern.
I know that there are many people working hard as Microsoft and Microsoft, even more hard than I have, but they didn't get what I got. My so-called revenue of my work is a bit ridiculous.
In the beginning of the 6th year of Microsoft, I finally moved into the house that we were decorated with our wife. When we came out from the front yard, staying in the next door, Stastati, Republican, the real estate agent, called us, introduced us to her himself. She asked us what we did. When he heard we worked in Microsoft, she said sorry, then returned to her house, took it out of a directory, and it is some luxury villa. She thinks this is very suitable for Microsoft, and ask me to know who I want to buy a house. Finally, she turned around my wife and asked: "Are you Microsoft's millionaire? I really want to know." Shandi didn't speak, and I am very surprised about such a shameless problem. Maybe it is a feature that I want to succeed in real estate. Salsi said calmly: "If I am a millionaire, I want to climb out from this mud?" This extremely imagined answer allows Stais ducklets. However, the facts are, if Shandi is really $ 1 million, she really has to move from here.
Another lesson is about our impression of others. At a working day, we stopped the car next to the Microsoft Headquarters. I can't remember what we want to buy. I only remember the price we want to pay much more than we plan to pay, but not too high, and some additional benefits, such as extending warranty. We came to the cashier to sett up, asked him that we can extend the warranty period in the label price.
The salesperson looked at the shares I embroidered "Microsoft". This coat is sent to me when I am participating in the fourth edition of Excel. Then he looked at my eyes can't.
Shandi and I know that we have no rooms we have to bargain, no matter what we still bought the thing. Even after many years, I have to check the logo on my clothes before buying important things.
For a long time, I plan to leave here in August 1994. By then, the company's restructuring now is completed. The next software design plan is in progress, departmental budget is completed, and the new round of employee evaluation has been done well, my stock option is also shrinking. From I have started doing intern, I may have 9 years now. I just can't imagine that when I stayed for nearly 10 years, I actually only got a briefcase I never need and a one-week holiday. One night in March 1994, because I was insomnia. Because the drip replies of the bodder, I am very bright, or the moonlight is too bright - I don't know what it is, it seems to have a voice whispered in my ear: "What will I leave before August?"
That night, I dreamed that I flew in the sky and strolled in the Numerous gray corridor of Microsoft. I rushed out of a building of a building and entered a parking lot. I rushed to a truck that was accelerating, and slammed, a foot fell on the edge of the truck base, leaping the truck, rushed to the sky, and swim over the Microsoft headquarters; suddenly rush down Between the buildings, people walking in the sun, brushing the Dao Glass fir forest and white ocean, flying over the country and city that I have never seen. When I woke up in the morning, I was also intoxicated.
My last day of Microsoft is March 23, 1994, which is a Wednesday. I went to the hospital, I saw the dentist and optometrist. This is the last health check for the company's payment, and then I left the eyewear for reading the book installed with new lenses.
My boss sent a message to my name title, announced my resignation and invited everyone to participate in this must be held. Our administrative assistant has customized a cake and booked a meeting room. Everyone arrived on time, and each person took a piece of cake and stood around the room. No one will sit on the festival. My colleagues talk to my anecdote during this 9 years. After the banquet, I moved the last box of my private items and driving home. ◆
I returned to Microsoft to make a freelance, made the company's "national", and the new Microsoft's identity badge in my yellow background prints "contract workers". It is my work certificate, which allows me to legally collect salary here, but a "citizen" should have no longer suitable for me. There is no salary and dividends for more than a year; canceled my generosity on my medical and retirement plan, and I have a member of a fitness club nearby; no longer qualified to participate in Microsoft's association club and sports community I can't buy software in a 50% discount on the company's store.
On the other hand, I am no longer subject to any constraints. I don't have to manage all memo, forms and conferences. It is also possible to hang my supervisor and work, because I will not affect the company's development. If someone regrets because of overtime, then it should be paid to 1.5 times a salary. I can leave this place when the contract is expired without having to pay another project. And I can ask for anything around you unconstrained, at least for myself.
Success is the continuous effort [Scott] (4)
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Computers and programs run above are just tools, they have no prejudice, which has always been neutral. I am familiar with document transfer, text processing, and digital products, they are the design and can complete a lot of excellence. Some non-profit organizations use Microsoft products to deliver goods and service information to people in need. Hospitals and universities use Microsoft products to make people live more colorful. However, I also doubt Columbia's drug makers, using Microsoft's spreadsheets to calculate their profits.
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I am very grateful to my career in Microsoft. There I learned technology, got confidence, make friends, of course, I also earned money, which is still most of my life. Now, I think my life is successful. In my life, there is people I love, I have my favorite work, I am satisfied with myself and the environment. I also got these in Microsoft.
Success is not equal to me, but I still think about money, planning how to spend money and want to get money. Success is not equal to achievement. Yes, I have traveled and start learning Italian, and there is original work publishing, but these don't mean what.
Successful to me is constantly working. For me, success is to be the kind of thoughtful, kind, curious, humorous, and expressive person. This success can be reached anywhere. This success will keep our minds when we are a group. I found that Many of Microsoft have similar success.
It must be worthwhile in Microsoft. Even if I read a book in a reputational library school, I still feel that Microsoft teaches me more knowledge on how to handle and solve the problem. The surroundings are smart people, and all of them are required to have difficult, challenging work, which will improve my intelligence. Some of them became a very close friend.
In Microsoft, all target settings and project plans have given me self-confidence on themselves and developed. After leaving Microsoft, I gave yourself a goal: complete the student 's academic papers; complete and publish a novel; in the novel, non-novel prose literature and poetry write a released work. I also developed economic goals to guide my income management: These goals are for consumption, savings, investment research, and donation of charity.
