May
7
2009
StackOverflow and the power of WISC
I’ve been a fan of Joel Spolsky’s for a while. Even today, I tell potential Microsoft recruits stories from the article Spolsky wrote back in 2000 about his time at Microsoft (which was actually what convinced me to interview at Microsoft when I was still in school, and then join Microsoft years later):
At Microsoft, if you’re the Program Manager working on the Excel macro strategy, even if you’ve been at the company for less than six months, it doesn’t matter – you are the GOD of the Excel macro strategy, and nobody, not even employee number 6, is allowed to get in your way. Period.
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