01.19.10
Sxip Identity and ActiveState Founder Leaves Microsoft After Just One Year, Calls It “the Year of Darkness”
Summary: Brain drain continues to plague Microsoft as Dick Hardt says goodbye
MANY people were shocked when Microsoft hired Dick Hardt, but it didn’t last long. In fact, he’s already leaving and here is why: [via Joseph Tartakoff]
Yesterday was my last day at Microsoft. I worked there a year. When I reflect on 2009, I think of it as the Year of Darkness. I only wrote a couple blog posts. I was inactive in the OpenID community. I did not talk to press or analysts. I gave no public presentations.
A lot of people are leaving Microsoft these days. Many of them get sacked. █
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Needs Sunlight said,
January 19, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Brain?
If these fellows were assets then it might be a brain drain, but many of these couldn’t get jobs elsewhere right out of college. Microsoft had a practice of taking only those that couldn’t work elsewhere straight from school. Being employed in the computing industry would spoil the indoctrination and disqualified them for employment at Microsoft.
A shorter explanation might be that there is even fake Enron money to keep them hired has run out.
Roy Schestowitz Reply:
January 19th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
“Having never worked in a large company, working at Microsoft was an invaluable experience for first hand knowledge on how large companies work.” –Dick