Joel Spolsky: A Visit to Microsoft and Google

Re:Joel Spolsky: A Visit to Microsoft and Google by brown9-2 on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @11:19PM (#650490)

I think there are some interesting comparisons between Microsoft and Google that Joel left unsaid: First, perhaps only a company with 90,000 employees (i.e., bloated) has enough spare resources to built a custom wifi authentication system with temporary passwords, color brochures, etc.

Second: Google's meeting with Joel was put on YouTube, and Microsoft's was...off-the-record? I think this one speaks for itself.

And seriously how can anyone get any real work done with all those meetings all day long?

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Re:Joel Spolsky: A Visit to Microsoft and Google by SwellJoe on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @04:29AM (#650737)

Google is not immune to those all-day, every day, meetings. Many managers and directors and veeps are very much booked all day every day. It just happens on the business campus which is a few blocks away from where I guess Joel visited.

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Re:Joel Spolsky: A Visit to Microsoft and Google by jrockway on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @04:20AM (#650728)

And seriously how can anyone get any real work done with all those meetings all day long?

Going to meetings all day is considered their "real work".

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