Hyperion giving employees $5K toward purchase of green car

re: Hyperion giving employees $5K toward purchase of green car

Heather — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:32:00 GMT

DMF-that doesn't surprise me. It's not my good nature that keeps me from stating something like that...just my lack of first hand knwledge...really, I'm not that good natured ; )

re: Hyperion giving employees $5K toward purchase of green car

DMF — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 16:14:00 GMT

You're correct that the move needs to equate to some business value, but I think your good nature may cloud your perception of their motives. More likely the ROI for the Hyperion CEO (Godfrey Sullivan) was his first face time on CNBC since assuming the role last summer. Despite his expressed "Passion" for the environment he can still be seen driving his $130K Mercedes to the office on a daily basis.

The Board did in fact approve the move for PR reasons, and utilization has been (as expected) quite low. By virtue of this Web Log entry, I submit that that PR move is working. A quick Google of Hyperion on Microsoft's Web Logs will lead one right to your posting - too bad their software doesn't rate any mention :)

re: Hyperion giving employees $5K toward purchase of green car

Jay R — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 18:29:00 GMT

Ola Healther. Thank you for introducing this important event to me and millions of others. I will call them with a better proposition -- namely, I am building a high efficiency engine, and in a full sized car it should get 100+ MPG! It is genuine US (and Canadian) technology. Why not go for a full solution?? And create a few ten thousand jobs at the same time?
Thanks
Jay R.

re: Hyperion giving employees $5K toward purchase of green car

ChiGuy — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 04:54:00 GMT

Thanks a lot Heather.
I am looking forward to my interview on Dec 6th and I really appreciate your prompt reply and keen insights.

re: Hyperion giving employees $5K toward purchase of green car

Heather — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 02:40:00 GMT

Hey ChiGuy...no MS finance blogs...sorry. I think that much of the info you find here is relevant to interviews for finance positions at Microsoft as well. The format should be the same. The content will be different. You'll get a lot of the same standard questions and they'll want to get to know you....what motivates you, what you are passionate about, why you think Microsoft could be the right company for you...that kind of thing. From a functional standpoint, you shouldn't expect a strict question and answer format. You will likely be given business scenarios/cases and asked to solve. So in this regard, to prepare, I would recommend you thinking about how you approach business problems. I think I posted a while back about case study questions and I would think about potential questions for finance roles in the same way. I asked one of the finance recruiters and he confirmed all this. He also said you'll get some behavioral questions ("tell me about a time when..."), but that is pretty standard across most companies. Good luck with your interviews!

re: Hyperion giving employees $5K toward purchase of green car

ChiGuy — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:49:00 GMT

Hi Heather,
Nice weblog...I'm getting out of my Thanksgiving holiday mode and I hope you had a great Thanksgiving holiday and a welcome break.

If you are aware of any MS Finance blogs, can you please post the link here. I've an interview next week for Microsoft Finance and I have no idea about the interview format and content.

thanks a lot,
ChiGuy