Philosophical Geek

I’ve been having a great time at Microsoft over the last couple of months, but the ramp to full productivity is very steep. Recently, I’ve been working on an important improvement to some monitoring software, which requires a fairly good understanding of part of the system. It can be a little overwhelming trying to design [...]

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Judging, by the blogosphere’s reaction, I’m one of the few people who liked the Gates-Seinfeld ads by Microsoft. They were odd, sure, but it got people thinking, talking, going WTF? – and that can’t be bad.
But I definitely like the I’m a PC ads better. I was at the company meeting when they debuted, and [...]

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It has been an insane first couple of weeks at Microsoft. In actuality, though, I don’t know if I can count it as two weeks of experience. I’ve had two days of orientation, one day for the company meeting (which was awesome, by the way), and two more days for training in Live Search specifically. [...]

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The folks on my future team at Microsoft have released a presentation about the diagnosing search engine issues with the recently released Live Search Webmaster Tools (it was out before, but in beta).
Diagnose SEO Issues with Live Search Webmaster Tools
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: seo)

If you run a web-site, you should [...]

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My last post was well and good (definitely read the comments), but I think I should be serious about my new employer because I really am excited to work there. Here are some reasons why:

The opportunity to work with people smarter than me. The chance to meet some of the people I admire in the [...]

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Wear my Google t-shirt.
Set my homepage to www.google.com
Continually ask, “Have you met BillG? Where’s BillG? When can I see BillG?”
Show off my bright blue iPod Nano
“Upgrade” my workstation to Windows XP
Then just format it and install Ubuntu
Randomly shout “Yahoo!” as I walk through [...]

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(If the thought of reading more than 4,500 words makes you hyperventilate, please go instead to my summary)
Please also read my Clarification on Why Study for an Interview

My Microsoft Background
Before I go into the specifics of the interview experience, I want to explain my background with Microsoft.
When I was just starting college, I got into [...]

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