Microsoft - What's inside?

The first time I entered Microsoft was about 1 year ago. My first experience was that it's very professional. There was a big slogan "Microsoft" in front of the reception desk. I was planing to take a photograph there before coming back to Viet Nam but I have not done it. Now, I'm an employee of Microsoft. Sometime, I went home late. When I crossed over this place, I remembered and smiled by myself. But I couldn't take photo any more. My camera was broken down.

Due to some personal reason, Nga (my collage) hadn't worked here any more. I replaced her position. That's my lucky. I was not good as her. I didn't care much about that. I would try my best. If I wouldn't success, I had experiences. I would lost nothing. At that time, when  I talked to Nga, I had thought about the Microsoft people as boring and hard-working and overtime and glumpy,...guys. In general, it's not good feeling. But I was totally wrong!

Back to the environment there. As I mentioned before, There are 2 floors which are used for public: 21 and 22. There were all meeting rooms and drop-in room there. Normally, I went to 20 to work with Bash, a guy moved here from Florida 6 months ago. He is a kind of guru, very good at technology, kind and friendly. I like to work with him. I could ask him as much as possible. It's very kind of him as to help me: software, configuration, security and even hardware. I helped him to do some demo applications. He was too busy to do that. 

The first thing about the Microsoft guys is that they travel a lot. They are not expected to go to the office. No one can could control where they are. If you want to know about someone, just go into Microsoft Outlook and look for his/her calendar - you need to have their have permission. They could be in Malaysia today.  But two day later, they were being in the meeting in Thailand. There are 4 seats in my zone but I had never seen 4 peoples at the same time. When I asked them where they want to go at the holiday event. I often had the same answer: "I had traveled the whole year. I want to relax at home with family."

Second, they spent most of their time for calling/answering telephone. The atmosphere in here was exciting. You could always heard someone talking on the phone. They also have a lot of meetings everyday. Because of this, there were more for meeting room area than working area. 

Third, they didn't work overtime. They spent alot of time for their family...

What's my role in Microsoft. That's my next topic.