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July 2005 - Posts

On juggling, unicycles, and jousting

Posted Friday, July 29, 2005 7:22 PM by steven_sinofsky
BusinessWeek has an article this week about the hiring binge at some companies in the bay area are doing (ok, Yahoo! and Google). The article raises a number of the standard “new high-tech hiring” clichés that are worth talking about because they seem Read More...
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College Hire and Intern Fair (Photos)

Posted Wednesday, July 27, 2005 6:24 PM by steven_sinofsky
Seattle, 7/27 6:30PM Just got back from the annual College Hire and Intern Fair. Every year we hold a big bbq for all the interns and college hires who started this summer. Today was a beautiful day for the event (ok a bit hot). And also a bit of a celebration Read More...
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Thoughts on the first few years of a new hire at Microsoft

Posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 3:10 PM by steven_sinofsky
I wanted to write some thoughts on career progression for new hires at Microsoft. Up front I should probably say that I am not trying to sell folks on Microsoft, but trying to tell it like it is. Folks who know me often accuse me of being too honest. Read More...
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One intern's experience at Microsoft

Posted Friday, July 22, 2005 1:57 PM by steven_sinofsky
I wanted to share a cool message I got this morning from one of our interns (I deleted the contact information and got permission from the sender to post this). I was glad that being an intern was such a nice experience for this student! From: Sent: Friday, Read More...
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Changing career paths at Microsoft -- short answer

Posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 10:19 PM by steven_sinofsky
Today I was talking with an intern who was having a good, but not great, summer working on one of our teams. He felt that perhaps he would be more successful if he was involved with testing more than development. His question was "is this really possible"? Read More...
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Q&A Session today -- "Fascinating technology"

Posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:58 PM by steven_sinofsky
Today the interns got together and I got to host a q&a session, which is always a highlight of the summer for me. Beforehand I get emailed tons of questions from our 100+ interns working on Office and Information Worker software. There are many cool Read More...
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Office Intern Party 2005

Posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 7:20 PM by steven_sinofsky
Seattle: July 20, 6:30PM Just got back from our our intern party and Jillian's which is a great place on Seattle's Lake Union. Every year we host the interns from the Office team with unlimited games, food, and (legal) drinks. This year also features Read More...
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Welcome to TechTalk!

Posted Tuesday, July 19, 2005 4:15 PM by steven_sinofsky
Welcome! One day in graduate school I decided that more school in computer science wasn’t really for me so I sent pulled together my resume and sent it in to the address on a copy of Microsoft Word for the Macintosh. A few weeks later I found myself going Read More...
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