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To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (14051)	5/26/1998 1:12:00 AM
From: soup	Respond to of 213177

We Are Borg. 'Microsofties' See Themselves as Right as Rain. via NY Times >A former Microsoft executive put it less charitably. "They all drink the same Kool-Aid," he said of his one-time colleagues. "It's their biggest strength and their biggest weakness.< >But the Government's legal attack seems only to have heightened awareness here of the boundaries between those with key cards to the "campus," as Microsoft's ever-expanding enclave here is called, and those who do not. That may be, in part, because self-doubters do not often make it through Microsoft's hiring process. "When I'm interviewing somebody I say to them, 'Tell me about something you've done that you're particularly proud of,'ÿ" said Jeff Raikes, group vice president for sales and marketing. "If they couldn't immediately come up with something that their eyes lit up, I knew they weren't the kind of person for Microsoft."< nytimes.com Read this. soup Off-topic: Rented two videos today "The Big Red One" a 1980 WWII film by Sam Fuller with Lee Marvin (appropriate for Memorial Day.) and "Fresh", a 1994 inner-city thriller by Boaz Yakim with Samuel L. Jackson and Giancarlo Esposito. Both are excellent. I think "Fresh" just made my all-time top 10 list!