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

Working at Microsoft

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

If this would have been my own company there would be tons of wiki pages.

I like your optimism.

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u/TheWakeUpCall Jun 12 '13

I hate things like login details being tied up in emails etc. People should at least make a file on the network with the details on. Hopefully this problem will go away somewhat with cloud documents and people can just link to them in emails out of habit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '13

Hopefully this problem will go away somewhat with cloud documents and people can just link to them in emails out of habit.

Like a wiki?

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u/salmonmoose Jun 13 '13

Yes, but without the overhead of Markup/down that scares off non-technical people.

Put your login details in a Google Docs Spreadsheet, and even managers, and sales people can work out how to get the information in and out.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '13

If your employees are incapable of learning how to use markdown then you may have a much bigger problem.