The Wall Street Journal came up with this interesting note - Goldman Sachs (GS) had set aside $9.2 billion for 2005 employee bonuses as of the end of its third quarter in late August. That's an average of $420,000 for each of its 22,000 employees!! $420...

This year the NSHMBA conference will be at Anaheim, CA from 9/28 - 10/01 and Beny Rubinstein our Senior Strategy Manager will be there talking to potential candidates for various roles in the Worldwide Enterprise Services & Support group here at Microsoft...

First up - yes I do have a Gmail account (1 yr old), just like I have a hotmail account (11 yrs old), a Yahoo account (8 yrs old). The concept is cool, the Huge storage is a great benefit for customers and hey I do also see some merit in searching v/s...

Today - had a quick call with our recruiter - Kristin Rozier and she's awesome. She was totally on board with having a blog to talk more about our group and how unique and great this group is - especially in terms of diversity and character of the teams...

Remember my meeting with Heather last week? Well the big news is this: I am now part of the Recruiting Committee at Microsoft WorldWide Enterprise Support & Services(WWESS). And one my first initiatives in my role in that committee is to pilot a blog...

This ad from ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) is absolutely hilarious, on the money and not too far from a feasible reality atleast in terms of technology viability. Have a look at how a sale is being made on a pizza - while the salesperson tactfully...

By now everyone knows about the movie-spoofs made at internal business conventions here at MS. The Star-Wars Parodies, the famous Matrix parody and the Apprentice parody (they even got the Donald for this one!) . Just shown this week at PDC2005 I am...

The last time I wrote anything that started with the words .... "My trip to ..." I was at a single digit age and that sentence would end with the words - Zoo. Fast forward a couple of decades forward and starting a sentence with those words - still brings...

As part of my first activities as a new alumni and Boardmember in the Seattle Chapter of the Tepper School of Business at CMU - I am helping organize a talk at Microsoft Redmond Campus open for All Tepper Alums, CMU alums, Microsoft FTEs and their guests...

Buzzwords are like fashion statements. Wait, strike "like" from that sentence, Buzzwords ARE fashion statements. In my honest opinion - Buzzwords follow the same 3 laws that define fashion statements: a) Both appear ubiquitously in usage. And - at...

At first it just does not make sense. Something as mundane as getting a roommate in (it's after they come in - that the problem arises) - has a scam associated with it. I have been looking for roomies for my place for a month and advertising in the...

How many times have we seen it happen - that 2 wks after a blog is created - it falls along the wayside due to lack of "entries" or "fodder" to feed the blog-space. Which begs the question - so what can make for a great blog - especially when you realise...