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Gaurav Bhatnagar reporting from New Delhi, India

Mini MSFT readers claim Indians are favored at Microsoft

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Perhaps because this is review time at Microsoft, the mini-MSFT blog is getting lot of agitated comments. Amongst the commenters, a few are claiming that there is “reverse discrimination” at Microsoft – that Indians are in general given preferential treatment, in particular by Indian managers. That is a very serious allegation and making it on a public forum anonymously is very low in my opinion. I think the mini-MSFT blog was a good idea but it has degenerated into a public laundry washroom for a small set Microsoft employees to vent frustration. The author of this blog wants Microsoft to become a lean organisation and be able to attract the best talent. The blog however serves to do just the opposite. If a prospecitve candidate went about googling to learn more about Microsoft, she is bound to run into this blog with all the offensive and outright false comments. If an Indian kid fresh out of college was considering employment at Microsoft and came across this blog, she is bound to get an impression that there might be hostility towards Indians within Microsoft. Nothing could be further from the truth but Microsoft could still lose a great hire.
So here is my message for Mini – if you really want to do Microsoft a favor, then please moderate your comments and get people to focus on your real agenda. Right now, your blog does not serve the real purpose and presents a skewed and incorrect picture of Microsoft to the outside world.

Written by gaurav

August 19th, 2005 at 3:33 am

Posted in Microsoft

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  • http://spaces.msn.com/members/aayushpuri Aayush

    >So here is my message for Mini – if you really want to do Microsoft a favor, then please moderate your comments and get people to focus on your real agenda.
    Unmoderated blogs can have other side effects too — The Blog Herald(http://www.blogherald.com/2005/08/27/blogger-sued-over-comments-left-on-blog/): “The guru behind SEO Book Aaron Wall is being sued by Traffic-Power.com in relation to comments left on his blog by other people.”

  • http://spaces.msn.com/members/aayushpuri Aayush

    >So here is my message for Mini – if you really want to do Microsoft a favor, then please moderate your comments and get people to focus on your real agenda.
    Unmoderated blogs can have other side effects too — The Blog Herald(http://www.blogherald.com/2005/08/27/blogger-sued-over-comments-left-on-blog/): “The guru behind SEO Book Aaron Wall is being sued by Traffic-Power.com in relation to comments left on his blog by other people.”

  • IUnknown

    > Right now, your blog does not serve the real purpose and presents a skewed and incorrect picture of Microsoft to the outside world.
    What else could you say? I work at MS and can confirm everything people say – there are tons of Indians in MS – that’s OK, but when Indian managers indeed push up their employees, that’s disgusting

  • IUnknown

    > Right now, your blog does not serve the real purpose and presents a skewed and incorrect picture of Microsoft to the outside world.
    What else could you say? I work at MS and can confirm everything people say – there are tons of Indians in MS – that’s OK, but when Indian managers indeed push up their employees, that’s disgusting

  • Anonymous

    if you really want to do a favor to Microsoft, please moderate your comments and get people to focus on his true agenda.

     SEO India

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