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快乐的事情

第一件是面试就象福尔摩斯探案，假设然后求证，决不存先入之见，但是判断一个人是一件很有意思的事情。

第二件很爽的事情是，刚刚fix完4个bug，幸福不只在于碰到编程问题我可以直接在 office communicator 上拉一把微软的工程师来问，更爽的是我找到了 bug 多一个! :D
11点半，刚解决，准备休息

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@ 20071115 07:26:00 with 0 comments read more...

Grouse, again

在微软这边有许多ABC，他们的广东话说得很流利，然后积极地想学普通话，英语当然是不在话下的。有
的时候为了和他们方便地交流，我在普通话里会夹很多英文单词，脑子需要在两种的语言之间转来转去
。比如说，当孤立地听到他们说： poor guy的时候，不能分辨他们是在说 poor guy 还是广东话里面
的" 扑街 "。当个玩笑。
每天在地铁里象沙丁鱼一样地挤罐头，最近地铁里还在放一部比较搞笑的短剧，不想提它了。
记得上次去参加同事的婚礼，回来的地铁上跟HR Manager一起聊天，她说起关于中国在今后的长远的
竞争力的问题，说白了，就拿微软来说，中国的研发中心不是说拼，而是是不是能够做得跟Redmond一
样好，甚至更好。
往稍微大一点方向来说，今后的竞争力在哪里？
－拿我之前的公司“Flextronics"来说，在中国的布局一是考虑到跟随着客户走，二是考虑到劳动力
价格的因素。但是越来越多的公司开始考虑到越南等劳动力更便宜的地方布局，不比体力，应该是比
智力与情商，团队协作的精神的时候。
在上次的HR council 里，STBC 的GM, Enwei跟总部过来的人说到民族性的问题以及过去的历史对于将来
的影响，甚而至于文化大革命的影响，在说我们是不是趋向于比较自私，在团队之中更追求个人的
performance等等。
对于以上说法的正确与否不去评价，在这里上班，有一个好处就是，每一个人都是所囿于具体而有限的
生活，然而在这里，还� ...

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@ 20071114 06:59:00 with 0 comments read more...

Live in city without metro

今天晚上出门坐地铁二号线去南京西路，在地铁里面有个小青年模样的人拿了一叠卡肆无忌惮地朝坐着人的身上飞，促销传单左右开弓，坐着的人面无表情。
走过我身边的时候，我踹了他一脚。
他愣了一下，回头骂骂咧咧地走掉了。

然后感觉好象后面一节车厢有动静，一个老外，年青的，个子高高，和发卡的小青年干起来了。好象对方没有占到什么便宜，人们的目光齐刷刷地看过去，旁边一个中年人站起来，把准备反扑的小青年拉开。然后不知道什么时候加入了另外两个小青年，离着老外不远不近的地方在商量着什么。那个老外看上去一脸气愤。

我第一次看到有人和乱往人身上扔卡片的人直接干架。车厢里的人全都是面无表情，不管男女老少。想想自己也不是当年的年纪了，还是会有抑制不住的冲动。

我不习惯坐地铁，因为：这种集体的失语我还不习惯。还有是因为，凡是车到站的时候，等车的人总是在里面的人还未下车时先行冲上，不管男女老少，最奇的是很多看上去很淑女的女孩子也首当其冲，这残酷地抹杀对于很多女孩子的印象。我曾经反抗过，在下车的时候把挤进来的人反挤出车上，这时候就会听到受害者一样地叫声：啊哟，作啥啦，推什么推啦。后来，我自觉地，如果要上车的话，等大家上完，如果要下车，也等大家上完。

经过这么多年的磨擦，我已经不会再想大学时读过的那个法国哲学家某某说过的话，他人即是什么什么。我试着用推断的方法来解释：
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@ 20071028 07:07:00 with 5 comments read more...

Dinner with Dave Friday night

Got the invitation from Prakash and SQL team, together had dinner with Dave last Friday night in 大公馆 near Donghu road, the first time been there and pretty touched the culture of SQL team, sitting at round table, talking about funny stories everyone has encountered with, like Dave mistook his son's passport on the airport, Prakash's enquiried by police due to car licience, and the beginning of Chinese team member's English name.

Almost forgot to introduce Dave, he's the technical fellow for Microsoft, the climax as an engineer in Microsoft could be. Though standing on the top of the world, he still got the title as "fellow" :)
If have to benchmark to the industry, he would be as "VP" level. Thinking at the first day I joining Microsoft, sitting with the engineers in the shuttle I could not believe it is ture, that I'm sitting among lots of geeks. Now I was entitle the opportunity of dinner with Dave, and he's right next side to me, it was happened just too fast. :)
We are making a Chinese name card for Dave, about the translation of his title: techincal fellow, we decided to use the "微软院士"。

Together with other members, Dave shaped the team of SQL, and he's also the first technical fellow (only 14 worldwide in MS) visisted China,
his visiting & Chinese namecard, means: We are really emphasizing on building SQL China R&D center. Which is a very positive signal.

Introduction of Dave from MS site:

"David Campbell is a Technical Fellow working in the Server Engine group. He is a software architect responsible for the SQL Server Storage Engine. As part of the team that redesigned SQL Server 7.0, Campbell was respons ...

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@ 20071023 06:15:00 with 0 comments read more...

Interview for Microsoft SQL Server team

I'm back, talking about interviews in SQL team again :)

在今天的内容里想谈一谈关于微软SQL team 的面试，只是就一点个人的看法。

通常的微软SQL TEAM面试流程是：
－在收到候选人的简历之后（在今后我会花一些时间讨论怎样写简历），HR会花时间检查，然后跟候选人约电话面试。
－电话面试之后，依据候选人的情况，决定是否向hiring manager（以下简称HM）推荐。
－然后HM依然会独立来作出判断，是否需要对候选人进行进一步的电话面试，或者直接邀请on site interview，或者是不面试。这一过程通常需要5至10个工作日。
－受邀请的候选人参加on site interview。面试结束之后，一般我们也会在5至10个工作日内通知是否录用。

以上的过程是微软面试的一般流程，视情况而异，我们有时候也会把中间的过程缩得很短，可能当天电话面试，第二天就约on site.

我想先谈一下HR的电话面试，直白地说，也就是跟我之间的沟通，呵呵
很多人在面试时都会问我是SQL哪一个TEAM的，什么职位，因为我会问相当多的数据库和技术方面的问题，但是我是HR，只不过一直对技术和编程保持着一份兴趣罢了。有些工程师下班以后可能不拿编程作消遣，我下班以后有时候（经常）拿编程作消遣。
我只是很浅地接触过：
VFP, Delphi, c/c++/php/sql/mysql/jsp.

电话面试通常是用英文来进行的。遇到比较多的一个问题是，我遇到有候选人问我，微软的面试题怎么会这么简单。
我想说的是，因为� ...

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Quote: SQL Server Culture

In my last post on the SQL Server China R&D team, I brought up culture as one of the most important leadership challenges in building up a team. How do we ensure that a team grows up with the “right” culture? And what exactly is this “right” culture anyway? In this post, I want to delve into these questions in a bit more detail.

Let’s start with the definition of the word first – Merriam-Webster defines culture as

Main Entry: 1cul·ture Pronunciation: 'k&l-ch&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, cultivated land, cultivation, from Anglo-French, from Latin cultura, from cultus, past participle

the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations b : the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; c : the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization d : the set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic

So, culture is about shared attitudes, values, goals and practices. Every organization has a culture, whether one that has been fostered intentionally, has evolved in a grass-roots manner or some combination of the two. Sometimes, organizations are very explicit about verbalizing the kinds of values and cultural attributes they would like to foster. But it should be no surprise that most people cannot understand, or even remember, what the “mandated” culture of an organization is supposed to be. Each of us grew up with some cultural background, but probably not many of us ...

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