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Microsoft really went hard after developers and that's exactly what they should have been doing.
And I was reminded of when I used to work in the Microsoft Excel team... they make more money off of Excel than Microsoft makes in a year in a day because they Excel enabled the whole derivatives business. ... Excel was like lucky if it scraped up a billion a year
They're paying us a lot more now.
we do almost nothing. It's like a small team of sales people uh that sell ads mostly for Azure, honestly.
There was an internal Stack Overflow at Microsoft that I think did really well.
there's sort of the Google and the Yahoo type perks well let's just say Google actually um yeah the perks like the massages and the free lunches ... at the margin yeah
Facebook and Google is a great example cuz um well um those are companies where people don't really want to go work anymore they're not so exciting but they pay develop ERS incredibly so what way to that's market clearing price I guess
I hope so for a technical recruiter that's certainly the case
Zillow LinkedIn yeah um you know these are companies solid stable yeah they're solid they're just killing it they're just they're just doing fine um they're um leaders in their space there's no real sort of flashiness about them they don't need to make a lot of noise um and there's I don't think there's anything about either of those companies that's uh um a fad you know or or temporary no far from it
I do i do have one its kind of heavier than i expected i was thinking of it really is a kindle competitor basically i was imagining ok its kindle it's brighter it's got the internet which kindle just as your book which is boring you got the internet which is exciting it's got video it's the ultimate likes it on the desk sit on sorry I sit down sit at your couch sit in a comfortable chair and you