Want to work on languages at Microsoft?
First a public service announcement followed by a message from our sponsors ...
The videos from our Lang.net 2008 symposium are now online. For a recap of the conference, see my earlier blog post. If you like what you see in these talks, we'd love to hear from you!
Our languages team is growing fast; we have five open positions as of today. We need devs for IronRuby, IronPython and F# and testers for IronRuby and F# (the links to the F# jobs will appear soon). In the meantime, feel free to contact me (jflam at you-know-where) about any of these positions, and I'll put you in touch with the right folks.
*sigh* Why do you guys have to based in Redmond?
Posted by: Michael Letterle | February 20, 2008 at 12:05 PM
Man, that's one ugly cat! :)
Thanks up for the heads up on the lang.Net videos (sucks that they use silverlight, but still, it's better than nothing :))
Posted by: Tomas Restrepo | February 20, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Although Redmond is nice, my home office is really comfortable. Does anyone at MS work remotely?
Posted by: Patrick Veverka | February 20, 2008 at 12:17 PM
Thanks John, I've been hanging out for a few weeks itching to watch these :)
On my blog I've linked directly to the WMV files if you don't want to watch them inside your browser using Silverlight. Let me know if that's a problem:
http://pageofwords.com/blog/2008/02/21/LangNETVideosAvailable.aspx
Kirk
Posted by: Kirk Jackson | February 20, 2008 at 03:51 PM
@Patrick: this position is for Redmond. Working remote at a large company like Microsoft doesn't really work for product teams. We do have remote dev teams in places like North Carolina for example, but that's an entire *team* that works remotely.
Posted by: John Lam | February 20, 2008 at 07:24 PM
@Kirk: no problem with the direct links. We really just want to get the talks out to folks who would be interested.
Posted by: John Lam | February 20, 2008 at 07:25 PM
John,
Are all the positions in Redmond, or is there a chance to telecommute with occasional trips to Redmond? Say spending one week a month in Washington?
Posted by: Rob Fahrni | February 21, 2008 at 09:59 AM
Whoops, sorry for the spam. I just read through all the comments. It's too bad Microsoft doesn't embrace telecommuting. I know it's a group by group thing, but overall I think you'd find some real gems if you'd allow more telecommuting.
Posted by: Rob Fahrni | February 21, 2008 at 10:04 AM
The expression on that cat's face is priceless!
Anyways, I wish I had the Ruby or Python chops to work on the DLR team. It looks like an interesting programming language project. I'm sure that you'll have no problems finding sharp folks who want to join the team _and_ work in Redmond.
Posted by: Joe Chung | February 22, 2008 at 03:12 AM
Hi John,
Matz wrote on his diary about the talk with Mr. Namimura from Microsoft Japan at the Developer Summit 2008 conference.
http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/20080213.html#p01
He wrote "When I told him that I think I'd stop developing Ruby for while and go Microsoft as an intern for a half year, I was half serious."
Maybe it's a joke but interesting.
Posted by: Masatoshi Itagaki | February 22, 2008 at 04:52 AM
@Rob: it's not really a telecommuting thing - it's more of a 'what we hire for' thing. I really need to write up a blog post to follow up on this idea since it might not be obvious why we work this way.
@Joe: Thanks!
@Itagaki-san: Wow! Well, we'd love to have him here :)
Posted by: John Lam | February 22, 2008 at 07:44 AM
Here's the F# link by the way:
http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobID=85EDB9E1-4EBD-407A-BA59-969005AF5EA8&start=31&interval=10&SortCol=DatePosted&SortOrder=
Posted by: Alex de Groot | March 25, 2008 at 04:26 AM