Results of the Meeting
Jan. 24th, 2002 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravencallscrowsWell, my new boss wants me to commit to staying with Office International through release (currently set for March 2003). He'd like me to learn a lot more about automation and investigate writing automation scripts for testing. I'm not sure yet. I think i'll try to strike a deal- if i get permission to interview for the one game designer, and don't get it, i'll commit to staying until release, at which point i'll see what happens.
Learning the automation stuff sounds interesting, but i don't think it'd be fair to myself to bypass an chance to get a position which is in line with my long term goals of leading the development on a game of my very own.
If I don't get permission, it'll be a sign that Microsoft, in spite of what they're saying at this mid-year review- that keeping talented people in positions where they feel as if they're doing what they want to do- doesn't really have the goal of keeping people enough to let someone to move to a group where they can do what they want to do.
If that proves to be the case, it'll be time to open an eye to external positions- figuring that a year of vested stock grants and (perhaps more importantly,) MS experience including a major product release and a year and a half of testing in less than optimal circumstances (i can't think of many things worse than testing in languages the tester doesn't comprehend!) might be worth enough somewhere else to let me do something which be more interesting than Office.
Learning the automation stuff sounds interesting, but i don't think it'd be fair to myself to bypass an chance to get a position which is in line with my long term goals of leading the development on a game of my very own.
If I don't get permission, it'll be a sign that Microsoft, in spite of what they're saying at this mid-year review- that keeping talented people in positions where they feel as if they're doing what they want to do- doesn't really have the goal of keeping people enough to let someone to move to a group where they can do what they want to do.
If that proves to be the case, it'll be time to open an eye to external positions- figuring that a year of vested stock grants and (perhaps more importantly,) MS experience including a major product release and a year and a half of testing in less than optimal circumstances (i can't think of many things worse than testing in languages the tester doesn't comprehend!) might be worth enough somewhere else to let me do something which be more interesting than Office.
