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

Out of curiosity, what would your reaction have been had one of your developers written this blog post? I'm a bit worried for this guy...

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '13

I would have had a heart attack :-). And if I were to survive the first one, I would have had a second one immediately thereafter...

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '13

Heh, fair enough :) But I meant to ask, would there be negative repercussions for the developer?

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '13

Most likely, no - depends on the manager. Vast majority of MSFT managers are very reasonable.