Road to the Red Pill - Part 2

re: Road to the Red Pill - Part 2

Cale Corbett — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 01:41:00 GMT

Congrats, Matt. It is nice to see that a guy whose controls have saved my time and my bacon is doing well.

Remember us little guys fondly when you land at MS :-)

The Joke's On You

TrackBack — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:24:00 GMT

re: Road to the Red Pill - Part 2

Matt Hawley — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:30:00 GMT

LOL, I think the fiance will have to take my CC away from me so I don't splurge. I guess its that good ehh. Can't wait!

re: Road to the Red Pill - Part 2

Scott — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:25:00 GMT

ewwwww, don't live in Redmond. We live in Seattle and it only takes my wife 30 minutes to get from Seattle to Redmond at 6:30AM. The commute sucks, but living in Redmond sucks more. Imagine a large strip mall surrounding Microsoft. bleh. Redmond is boring, Seattle is fun. If you live in Redmond you'll never make it over to Seattle. You'll think about it, you'll talk about how you're going to go to Seattle this weekend. But then you'll end up sitting there in your house/condo/appartment, you'll go get some sub-standard asian food, you'll look around for some place to get a beer that isn't a chain food bar and grill, then you'll go home. When you talk about going down to the water, you'll mean Lake Samammish or Lake Washington (if the "traffic" isn't too bad). Boring

Well, that's not completely true. There is some pretty country over there. :)

Congratulations on the job. Set a limit on how much you'll spend at the company store the first week you are there. ;)

re: Road to the Red Pill - Part 2

Dan Hounshell — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:17:00 GMT

Congrats, Matt. Very nice story, too. Working for "the man", huh? Maybe "the man" is not so bad after all?

re: Road to the Red Pill - Part 2

marco — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:09:00 GMT

great Matt! Lots of congrats for taking "The Job"! I believe that working for MS at your age is, well, great!
I own my own software firm, but being a softie has always been a sort of wet dream...eheh! good luck!

re: Road to the Red Pill - Part 2

Tim Haines — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:21:00 GMT

The space needle is the bomb. I have a miniture sitting on top of my monitor.

re: Road to the Red Pill - Part 2

Ryan Gregg — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:55:00 GMT

Great story, and it reminds me a lot of my own experiences. I went through a similar process back in November with a similar outcome! Now that I'm out here I have to say it was the best decision I've made! The whole interview process may rattle your nerves a little, but working at Microsoft is totally amazing!

I'm looking forward to hearing even more about your experiences thorugh the rest of the process in the future.

re: Road to the Red Pill - Part 2

Gert Van Gool — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:33:00 GMT

I hope one day to walk down the same road :)
Though it won't be a 3 hour flight than :) (from Belgium is bit longer :p)

re: Road to the Red Pill - Part 2

Myrddin — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:13:00 GMT

Great story! Perhaps one day I'll get the same chance! :-)