Random All-Hands Notes
Random braindump as today’s DPE (Developer and Platform Evangelism) team meeting kicks off:
- I found 3 different routes to get from the conference center to B34 Cafe with minimal rain; all involve various underground passages. (We have a life-size cutout of Hitman in our cafeteria now; think stealth)
- There are tons of people in DPE from Michigan; probably more than the already high ratio at MSFT as a whole.
- Opening music (recorded) by Ronnie James Dio.
- We are still one of the only buildings on campus with the starbucks “i-cup” machines (and Dixie’s in our cafeteria, as opposed to “Garlic Jim’s” at 34). Envy has been growing, so one of the disposessed started a vicious rumor that our beloved machines would be taken away from us. Facilities put that rumor to bed today — the machines stay, and everyone else will see machines in their cafeterias “real soon now”. Building 34 has convenience items and greeting cards, though. I hear those will be removed due to envy soon.
- OMFG, everyone on the team is a nth-degree blackbelt, mountain climber, famous artist and poker champ. One nice thing about having a median age about 10 years older than the median GOOG employee age is that our overachievers have had 10 years extra to add lines on the resume.
- When will the Sanjay disco video leak to YouTube?
- A bunch of people on the team I didn’t even realize were in DPE now.
- Ratio of new people vs. old on the team is higher in the meeting than in the team as a whole. Does this mean old people skip more?
- Wow, lots of very interesting info I can’t blog about. Maybe I shouldn’t have skipped the last couple team meetings.
- Go to TripleDoor on Oct 20 if you want to but artwork from Sanjay; proceeds to charity