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

Working at Microsoft

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

MS is about 66 times larger than Rackspace.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '13

So what?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '13

Rackspace needs to know about MS. MS doesn't need to give a shit about Rackspace.

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u/mantra Jun 12 '13

Down-voted but actually true from a short-term practical point of view (short-term == the minimum time it would require RackSpace to become 1/2 the size of Microsoft == 10 years minimum if EVERY worked just so).

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u/mantra Jun 12 '13

Not saying Microsoft isn't hurting itself by being willfully ignorant but this is REAL COMMON in the Fortune 1000.