Debunking the Google Interview Myth

Posted on Monday, May 17th, 2010

Years ago, rumors used to circulate about Microsoft interviews.  They were the hot, new company that everyone wanted to work.  With envy came the urban myths.  These rumors have since been transfered to Google, and [...]

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Think Less, Experiment More: 5 Lessons on Entrepreneurship

Posted on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

A guest blog post I wrote for Women Grow Business:

Working for Microsoft, Google and Apple, I not only became a better engineer – I became a better entrepreneur. Their successes and failures, encapsulated in these [...]

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Company Loyalty = using Microsoft search to prep for a new job

Posted on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Microsoft Loyalty Scorecard:+ 1: Using Microsoft search at work.- 1: Using Microsoft search to prepare for your upcoming interviews… at work.
Kumo is Microsoft’s new search engine that was released internally this month. No one [...]

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Talkinator & The Value of Feedback

Posted on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

I’ve been using Talkinator, an embeddable chat program for websites, for a few months now.
I realize I might be the only post-1995 site to want a chatroom, but it’s actually rather useful. For example, [...]

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Top 10 Best Microsoft Interview Questions

Posted on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

500 Microsoft Interview Questions on CareerCup
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As the founder of CareerCup, the web’s largest source for technical interview questions, I have over 500 Microsoft Interview Questions at my disposal, with more added every day. Everyday [...]

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Blue Screens and Web Apps

Posted on Friday, December 7th, 2007

My laptop, which I fear is on its last legs, got a little servicing today from Dell. It’d been blue screening frequently since, well, since Dell last visited me two months ago (broken fan [...]

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MS Explorer Crashes

Posted on Monday, November 26th, 2007

Really, name a cruise ship the MS Explorer, and of course it’ll crash. Silly people.
A Canadian cruise ship struck submerged ice off Antarctica and began sinking, but all 154 passengers and crew, [...]

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RE: Life at Google – The Microsoftie Perspective

Posted on Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Sigh… why do I always get sucked into these things?
By now, it seems like everyone has read Life at Google – The Microsoftie Perspective. And now, I too am getting sucked into this discussion…

The [...]

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Seattle Times Article: Google vs Microsoft

Posted on Friday, September 23rd, 2005

The front page of the Seattle Times today featured an article on me (and some other people) in reference to employees leaving Microsoft to go to Google. After three internships at Microsoft and a [...]

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Contest Winners

Posted on Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Well, the Xtreme.NET Challenge was a great success. Here are the winners:
1st: David Siegel, MailAssist
2nd: Wesley & Brandon Rosenblum, KnowtionNet
3rd: Matt Jones, FTP Studio
Finalists:
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