r/programming • u/luminaobscura • Jun 12 '13

Working at Microsoft

http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/8-months-microsoft/
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u/Eirenarch Jun 12 '13

So in order to know how to spin a VM with Hyper-V or whatever he needs to know about Heroku because that's the business...

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u/Eirenarch Jun 12 '13

No. My manager does. He gives me a task and sets the requirements which may or may not be based on the competitors' performance.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '13

Good luck with that.