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It amazes me how someone thinks he can generalize something about a 15,000-person organization having worked with a tiny piece of it for a short time. I think the author should have stuck more to Sergei's tune, when he said: "I left because Microsoft turned out to be the right place for me". Want promotions and management positions and fancy titles? Then a flat organizational structure is not for you. Want exhaustive…
It amazes me how someone thinks he can generalize something about a 15,000-person organization having worked with a tiny piece of it for a short time. I think the author should have stuck more to Sergei's tune, when he said: "I left because Microsoft turned out to be the right place for me". Want promotions and management positions and fancy titles? Then a flat organizational structure is not for you. Want exhaustive…
Considering the possibility that most Microsofties have returned or will return to Microsoft is however still not proof that Microsoft is unconditionally better than Google (and vice-versa, if most ex-Microsofties stay at Google, we don't have unconditional proof that Google is better). Many Microsofties might have grown used to the MS environment and might - if only through force of habit - prefer the MS environment.
I'm not sure whether Dare wants to correct the perception that there is a debilitating exodus of people from MS to Google; I can understand such a motivation, since Yahoo's recent woes prove how a little bad news can cause massive demoralization. But still, I can't agree with his relaxed anecdotal method.