The REAL mini-Microsoft
Last few days have been such a deja-vu for me. It feels like Microsoft all over again at work. Having ever really worked in one company before, both Ashish and myself have only one example (a damn good one, if I may add) to go by on how companies are run. And Manish had spent almost a year in Redmond, so he is pretty much indoctrined to the Microsoft way as well. Slowly and almost sub-consciously, we have been practically replicating Microsoft dev practices here at Tekriti. Whether its things like requiring all code to be reviewed before getting checked in, or requiring "smoke" tests beofre resolving a bug, or bringing daily bug reports to the morning meeting (which we call "WAR" meeting), or having a MSFT style interview loop for hiring, or going to movies for morale events - its all starting to feel, in a good way, like Redmond, right here in Gurgaon! For all you know, we could have been a small product team working in building 9 and lot of things would have been same (well maybe there would be free soda, but no free lunch!)
A few days back I had blogged about the mini MSFT blog. But now you know where the REAL mini MSFT is :)
Comments
hmmm...Guess the first job leaves a lasting impression and most of the work culture that is us get ingrained then.
Posted by: SP | July 22, 2005 07:39 AM
This is not unique to Microsoft! Pretty much most product companies (i've been at 3) have bug review meetings...most IT consulting firms in the US (and now here) have outings to the movies or dinner...and yes, all code has to obviously be reviewed in all the US companies I worked in!
But the MSFT interview process is interesting.
I'm impressed though that you managed to get funding and clients for your venture with only your Microsoft contacts- hope to read a blog on how you did it.
Posted by: Anirban Deb | August 9, 2005 10:14 AM