Re: Why you want to work for Microsoft (research)

Gregory Alan Bolcer (gbolcer@gambetta.ics.uci.edu)
Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:15:07 -0700

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> http://chronicle.com/data/articles.dir/art-44.dir/issue-33.dir/33a03101.htm
>
> This is possibly the only fully pro-Microsoft article you'll see for
> the rest of the millennium.
>
> Plus points: more open than other industrial labs. More freedom.
> Minus points: no grad students to do your work for you.
>
Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't start their own
company, go to Microsoft voluntarily, those who can, involuntarily.

Greg

> Still no tenure, though.
>
> L.
>
> wondering if the Microsoft policy is simply to hire every functional
> mind on the planet to create a monopoly of thought.
>
> <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.sat-net.com/L.Wood/>+44-1483-300800x3641
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