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Re:Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Sec... by polyomino on Thursday January 23, 2014 @05:22PM (#7111748)
All Microsofts' interns got surface pros as gifts, I see them in all my CS classes.
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Re:Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Sec... by jmcdowell on Thursday January 23, 2014 @05:29PM (#7111821)
Guessing this is USA? This did not happen for UK based interns , only full time employees received surfaces as gifts over here.
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Re:Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Sec... by rbanffy on Thursday January 23, 2014 @05:51PM (#7111985)
Overseas always takes the short straw. In Brazil, the technical consultants I knew always complained about the hardware they got. Sales people got all the nice stuff.
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Re:Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Sec... by jmcdowell on Thursday January 23, 2014 @05:55PM (#7112018)
That's interesting, it was the opposite here with all the developers having workstations and spec'ed up laptops whereas sale/marketing would be given some generic thinkpad.

I would of thought Brazil may be changing as they were getting a new office there and hiring when I was at the company.

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Re:Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Sec... by rbanffy on Thursday January 23, 2014 @06:01PM (#7112059)
To be fair, last time I had someone close in a technical role in Brazil was a while ago. Things could have changed since they got relocated (mostly to the US).
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Re:Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Sec... by onedev on Thursday January 23, 2014 @05:36PM (#7111879)
Yeah it's pretty easy to spot the Microsoft interns after that gift haha.
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Re:Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Sec... by jwoah12 on Thursday January 23, 2014 @06:19PM (#7112172)
Sure beats the Zune I got a bunch of years ago.
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