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Microsoft’s Last Offer




Microsoft last offered Yahoo a combination stock, asset and business deal
that sources with knowledge of the situation summarize as follows:



• Microsoft to acquire 16% of Yahoo’s outstanding stock from existing
  stockholders for $8 billion, or $35/share.
  
• Microsoft to acquire all of Yahoo’s search and search marketing assets -
  servers, code, advertisers, third party publishers, intellectual property and
  employees (perhaps 3,000 of them) for $1 billion in cash plus a guaranteed CPC
  rate that is higher than what Yahoo can generate itself.
  
• Yahoo gets increased search revenue from the deal over what they generate
  now, and get to remove people and operational costs of search.
  
• Yahoo agrees not to touch the search or search marketing businesses directly
  ever again. All their searches are controlled by Microsoft.

My Experience at Interviews with Microsoft and Google

Few months ago I was interviewed for a software engineer in Google Zurich. If
I need to compare Microsoft and Google, I should tell it in short: Google sux!
Here are my reasons for this:

1) Google interview were not professional. It was like Olympiad in
Informatics. Google asked me only about algorithms and data structures, nothing
about software technologies and software engineering. It was obvious that
they do not care that I had 12 years software engineering experience. They just
ignored this. The only think Google wants to know about their candidates are
their algorithms and analytical thinking skills. Nothing about technology,
nothing about engineering.

2) Google employ everybody as junior developer, ignoring the existing
experience. It is nice to work in Google if it is your first job, really nice,
but if you have 12 years of experience with lots of languages, technologies and
platforms, at lots of senior positions, you should expect higher position in
Google, right?

3) Microsoft have really good interview process. People working in Microsoft
are relly very smart and skillful. Their process is far ahead of Google. Their
quality of development is far ahead of Google. Their management is ahead of
Google and their recruitment is ahead of Google.

Microsoft is Better Place to Work than Google

At my interviews I was asking my interviewers in both Microsoft and Google a
lot about the development process, engineering and technologies. I was asking
also my colleagues working in these companies. I found for myself that Microsoft
is better organized, managed and structured. Microsoft do software development
in more professional way than Google. Their engineers are better. Their
development process is better. Their products are better. Their technologies are
better. Their interviews are better. Google was like a kindergarden - young
and not experienced enough people, an office full of fun and entertainment,
interviews typical for junior people and lack of traditions in development of
high quality software products.