Mini-Microsoft

2014

I used to read this often.

The most interesting post was one of the final ones. In 1,000 comments speculating about Ballmer's successor, I saw only one mention of Satya Nadella.

This is important. I was initially shocked to hear of a big round of layoffs at Microsoft, until I saw the date. Maybe we can add the year to the link?

For those who haven't heard of mini before, this site was like Blind but only for Microsoft 20 years ago.

The blogger was anonymous but claimed to be a partner, which is a high level at Microsoft. He openly criticized aspects of the culture and company's direction. Notably he thought the company had gotten too big and needed to have fewer employees (hence the mini Microsoft moniker).

Employees would share salaries, bonuses, and raises every year after reviews in a giant thread of anonymous comments.