/hot-tech-majors1#comment-12759Great Post! Extremely relevant. 2012-05-22T17:35:55urn:comment:12759/MSV#comment-12752Sean is an amazing fellow, working together in the Microsoft Student Partner Program he always went above and beyond.2012-05-21T08:09:49urn:comment:12752/pm-israel#comment-12751Nice T-Shirt :)2012-05-20T11:21:36urn:comment:12751/juliana-video#comment-12750What has surprised you most about the Microsoft culture? The informality, openness and innovation.2012-05-19T06:53:11urn:comment:12750/blog/why-I-returned-to-ms#comment-12744That's amazing, just reading this has inspired me a whole lot because I would like to work for Microsoft one day when I finish college and get my degree in: Information Technology.2012-05-16T14:48:51urn:comment:12744/MSV#comment-12743Sean is an amazing fellow, working together in the Microsoft Student Partner Program he always went above and beyond. All the best Sean, they are luckily to have you and can't wait to hear more about your process in speech recognition something I depend on everyday. Jenny 2012-05-15T22:09:51urn:comment:12743/MSV#comment-12742Nice feature, Sean! 2012-05-15T21:14:51urn:comment:12742/work4bing#comment-12738@Joelle B You ask a great question. When people are job searching they weigh their determining factors differently. I think that as a job seeker you owe it to yourself to do both. Look at a company’s reputation for corporate citizenship, diversity, technology, etc but also do your homework on the product/service you want to work on just as you mention – product awareness, utilization, market, history, etc. -Eugenia2012-05-11T21:54:18urn:comment:12738/work4bing#comment-12731Microsoft and it's subsidiaries are amongst some of the best companies to work for- even in South Africa where Microsoft SA is employing some great IT professionals in our region.2012-05-10T13:41:23urn:comment:12731/work4bing#comment-12727I agree, working for Bing would be a great experience. But do you think people have this hesitation between Bing versus Google. Is it more of a company reputation or more of a product awareness and utilization? I would like to hear people from Microsoft, what they truly think about that. thank you 2012-05-09T07:00:34urn:comment:12727/work4bing#comment-12725I would like to join this blog. 2012-05-08T18:32:24urn:comment:12725/garage#comment-12722Hi @StephenRowlison Thanks for your interest! The Garage is currently open to FTE Microsoft employees. 2012-05-08T17:23:40urn:comment:12722/garage#comment-12719That's interesting. Great way to spur creativeness.2012-05-05T11:39:06urn:comment:12719/blog/3-interview-mistakes#comment-12718Sarman, my rejection experience was different: The recruiter called me and gave me clear and actionable feedback over the phone and even suggested other roles that could be a better fit. I did not expect such detail and consideration because I had previously experienced a template rejection from Amazon; it seems that Microsoft does really care about the candidates =) 2012-05-05T04:58:23urn:comment:12718/garage#comment-12712Is the Garage open to Micorosft Cloud partners that sell Office 365 and Azure? Can we open an online supermarket together instead?2012-05-04T02:44:27urn:comment:12712/women-in-it-series#comment-12709With some do respect, I find this article extremely absurd....Why are we opting for Quota's when we should be focussing on Merit based system? The real question should be why more women are not pursuing derees engineering, computer science, information science, mathametic... The numbers are very lopsided in colleges across the nations, thus the main reason why they are only 25% of the IT industry. We want the next google, microsoft, facebook to be a women, but sad reality is that many women are not interested in these fields. Many women (some men) deem these it degrees boring and difficult. Why not take responsibility for this failure, and promote more girls into mathamatics, engineering, etc... as oppose to trying to change our merit based society. This article makes an erroneous presumption that there is bias in the hiring process of these great technology corporation, when in fact it is purely based on merit, and I would argue that they have gone out of there way to give women preference at times. The sad reality of it is that there aren't enough women who graduate with technical skills. 2012-05-02T19:36:29urn:comment:12709/women-in-it-series#comment-12708The answer is a resounding NO. I work in a technological company where out of 50 engineers, only 6 of them are women (including me). Out of 6 women, only one of them is in a managerial position, and even then she had to give up having a family to dedicate time to her career. She was married but no kids. I can't help but think that if the world was a little more equal then we wouldn't be in this catastrophic financial crisis at this moment in time. Women tend to think differently from me, and with that comes a whole bunch of fresh ideas. We say that the glass ceiling has come down in the UK, yet I see proof of it around me all the time. I look forward to the day when we recognise people for their achievements and talents rather than their gender. Here's to Juliana's speech too :)2012-05-02T18:39:12urn:comment:12708/women-in-it-series#comment-12705Thank you for openning up this dialogue today. This is what Women in IT need. My only question is where were you 12 years ago when I entered my 1st Management position and took a staff of 4 techs to 11 in a nine-month period? I felt like I'd given birth to something......LOL. It all good though; as life works in cycles and this is our time TODAY. I like what I see evolving on the blog/forum. Keep up the positive work -- we can all learn new things. GOD Bless.........Cassandra2012-05-02T18:16:28urn:comment:12705/garage#comment-12704Thanks for your interest Dennis. The Garage is currently open to Microsoft employees. We have a variety of projects underway in this incubation space. The best way to share your ideas is to apply to a job at Microsoft and have the opportunity to join the team! 2012-05-02T17:32:09urn:comment:12704/garage#comment-12701So is this open to the public (non-Microsoft employees)? Are all inventions incubated for Microsoft? If outsiders have ideas, can they incubate and have exposure to Microsoft for purchase/licensing? How about resource sharing? Thanks, Dennis2012-05-01T22:39:32urn:comment:12701