work for microsoft?
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- Meeklo0
if anyone is interested, my roomate developed an add in for media center that removes commercials from your recorded shows.
its pretty sweet I can tell you.. makes tivo look like windows 95 :)
- Llyod0
@jfletcher, working in a "what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger environment" would suck
- jfletcher0
Lloyd - that's a bit of a bleak way to look at it, but you could.
My thought is, if I got to an agency or work on my own, I'll know how to showcase my work and explain my work. I'll know how to handle clients and how to present work to them.
Again, certainly not for everyone, but I find it pushes me in good ways
- Llyod0
why don't you go work at avea/razorfish? how are they meshing with ms?
- Llyod0
http://www.avenuea-razorfish.com… nice redesign
- jfletcher0
I know our team has done a bit of work with them, but I haven't yet.
When I came back to Microsoft I had an offer from another big design agency who worked with Microsoft 90% of the time, but turned them down. I loved taking a product through to ship it and get it to customers. I also couldn't pass up an offer to work on Surface and new types of interaction problems. I do miss agency work because you had a wide variety, but there is nothing like seeing you're work on people computers all over the world....
...although it's less exciting to hear how it may have crashed on them :P
- HaleyF0
I just finished a year of doing interactive design work for Microsoft Canada (among other large corporate accounts). It wasn't that bad of a gig but I don't really think I grew very much as a designer. It was pretty formulaic and conservative. Also I had to use Segoe all the time.
I did it for the money though. Didn't want to spend any more time owing student loan money than I had to.
- jfletcher0
You have to find the right environment to grow fast as a designer. I have gone out of my way to find great mentors and got lucky with great managers. However I'm not sure how many designers the canadian offices have :)
That being said, I wouldn't doubt working for a Frog or IEDO, where I design 24/7 wouldn't have me growing faster as a designer. For me it's the trade off to learn general project and management skills that help where I want to go in career overall.
- Seanbot0
Surface won't be surface as we know it now in 2 years. Nor will the iMac or anything like that.
- monkeyshine0
There is Microsoft outside of Seattle. The Boston...well, officially the Cambridge office is doing some very cool work.
- yeah but I'm talking about being in the shit manLlyod
- Incubation Center, Research Center...how much more 007 can you get?! :)monkeyshine
- ha- my very good friend was asked to be the lead of that center. turned it down.madirish
- fooler20
My friend moved from NYC to Seattle to work on the Zune and online music stuff for M$. She lasted about 9 months before she quit and moved back to NYC. She hated commuting to Redmond everyday and Seattle doesn't have that much to offer (compared to NYC).
- Llyod0
yes I've been to seattle and it sucks. mainly the weather. but also everyone there looked depressed. there were no good looking women. bah
- Mimio0
I would work there. People advance fast there.
- ukit0
Isn't this like the 1000th post about moving to Seattle and working for MSFT? Just do it already.
- Llyod0
because it sucks
- ukit0
Maybe Seattle is awesome, and you suck. Did you ever think about that?
- Llyod0
impossible