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risotto on May 23, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How valuable to my resume is 5 years at Mi...

I've ran across a couple ex-MSFTers that were way too expensive for their skill set. But I still wish I could have hired them, they were smart guys.

Aside from that, if you are being interviewed by real tech people, not an HR machine, there's no way MSFT could ever count against you.

Way more damning is if you only have experience with .NET or something like that.

spoon16 on May 23, 2010 [–]

Good point regarding .NET. I have been working hard to have significant expertise beyond .NET even though we are rather .NET focused in my day to day work at Microsoft.

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