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Hello Microsoft! – Jonathan Giles

 6 years ago
source link: http://jonathangiles.net/hello-microsoft/
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I'm joining Microsoft - and I couldn't be more excited! A while back I shared that I was leaving Oracle. Around this time I was casting my net out to friends at four companies I wanted to work at, with one of those companies being Microsoft (the others shall remain nameless, but needless to say I enjoyed chatting to all of them!). After JavaOne I was even more interested in Microsoft as I heard a lot about their push to supporting Java on Azure. Around this time I spoke to Tim Heuer on the phone, and less than a week later I was in Seattle interviewing with Microsoft. A day after that (literally whilst I was standing in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport) a job offer was confirmed, and now (after the usual protracted background check process to ensure I'm not a criminal, am educated, and have actually worked where I say I've worked), I'm joining Microsoft on December 11. This was an incredible pace, and actually, it left some of the other companies I was talking to in the dust. After

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