Microsoft.com - Careers: Linux/Open Office

Re:Microsoft.com - Careers: Linux/Open Office by endtime on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @10:34AM (#1022543)

Looks internal, but it also looks like they're hiring marketing folk, not engineers. I think that's more likely the reason that it sounds like gibberish. If a marketing person saw an ad looking for someone with experience in T-SQL in Perl (or whatever), it would probably sound equally bizarre.

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Re:Microsoft.com - Careers: Linux/Open Office by imajes on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @11:37AM (#1022660)

Lots of those acronyms and abbreviations are microsoft internal, i think. They're not generic marketing. I also think they disclose a lot about the nature of internal senior management structure- who reports to who.

An example: "KT and SteveB" are probably Kevin Turner (COO) and Steve Ballmer.

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Re:Microsoft.com - Careers: Linux/Open Office by jf on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @03:10PM (#1023124)

You're right. Those are Microsoft internal jargon.

"compete": Term used for "not Microsoft" (I came from "compete")

"v- team": This position will have contractors working for them. Contractors working for Microsoft have usernames in the format: /[a-z]\-[a-z]+/. Contractors or "Vendors" have usernames starting with 'v-'

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Re:Microsoft.com - Careers: Linux/Open Office by endtime on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @05:37PM (#1023388)

I agree with you, they're certainly Microsoft-internal terms. But more specifically, they're Microsoft marketing -internal.

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