Personal Bytes

A very interesting and recent post on a blog entitled “Say No 2 Google” tries giving an overview of how is it to be working at Google and how does that compare to Microsoft. The purpose, they say, is to try catching the best talents that have been slipping off from Microsoft to Google.

Google is not perfect. The ex-Google worker (now working at Microsoft) complains about the lack of space and personal offices (which is pretty normal since Google is growing like crazy), the dependence on work that overtakes your life (breakfast, lunch and dinner at Google, washing machines, hairdresser, everything at Google) and that Google does not give as many benefits as Microsoft gives to its employees.

Well, guest what, I don’t care if I earn less, my health insurance is not as good, they tie me into their claws by offering me free meals or I need to put a thin layer of oil to fit into a cubicle shared between 6 employees. It goes way beyond that. Everyone sees Google as a great and innovative company with some revolutionary corporate culture. Granted, you work a lot. So what? Don’t all of you work a lot on every other IT company? Way more than the typical 9 to 5 working hours? I do. It’s a commitment. Besides, if you don’t like it, the door is always open. Just quit.

The reason people run away from Microsoft is because it’s a bad company. It does not have any moral or ethics, keeps suing everything that moves and that gets in front of them and is terribly monopolistic. Even the CEO throws chairs! How bad could that be?

Some argue that companies do not need to have moral or ethics. Well, I don’t share that “Adam Smith vision” of the world. That’s the worst capitalism can give. Companies should indeed act in good faith (as everyone else) and be held liable for their bad acts.

I, for one, would rather prefer to earn less and have way less benefits and work at Google rather than Microsoft. Actually, I guess no money in the world would make me work at Microsoft.