<story><title>Windows NT Kernel Contributor Explains Why Performance is Behind Other OS</title><url>http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsolson</author><text>&amp;#62; Another reason for the quality gap is that that we&apos;ve been having trouble keeping talented people. Google and other large Seattle-area companies keep poaching our best, most experienced developers, and we hire youths straight from college to replace them.&lt;p&gt;I will say all of the ex-Microsoft folks I&apos;ve encountered at Google Seattle have been fantastic.&lt;p&gt;On a related note, it&apos;s stupidly easy to get code accepted by another team at Google.&lt;p&gt;Also we&apos;re hiring.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tracker1</author><text>Too bad you guys don&apos;t seem to give a second glance at someone without any formal education, despite working on systems for government, training, banking security and airline industries.</text></comment>
<story><title>Windows NT Kernel Contributor Explains Why Performance is Behind Other OS</title><url>http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsolson</author><text>&amp;#62; Another reason for the quality gap is that that we&apos;ve been having trouble keeping talented people. Google and other large Seattle-area companies keep poaching our best, most experienced developers, and we hire youths straight from college to replace them.&lt;p&gt;I will say all of the ex-Microsoft folks I&apos;ve encountered at Google Seattle have been fantastic.&lt;p&gt;On a related note, it&apos;s stupidly easy to get code accepted by another team at Google.&lt;p&gt;Also we&apos;re hiring.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dvt</author><text>&amp;#62;Also we&apos;re hiring.&lt;p&gt;Insult to injury? ;)</text></comment>