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Things I like about working @ MSFT (part 3.1)

Tuesday, February 07 2006

Self-Critical [v 1.1]

Back on 12.14.05 I posted part 3 of my open-ended "Things I like about working @ MSFT" series. The topic was self-critical. I'm calling this part 3.1 because I just came across another perfect example of this character trait [if you want to think of MSFT as a charactor ;-) ].

Mike Torres is a PM with MSN Spaces here at Microsoft. He is one of the biggest advocates for the service and does a bang-up job reporting new features as they're released, explaining why features aren't present, which features we can look for in the future and just plain interacting with you, our customers [transparency is a beautiful thing]. He also has a huge investment into the product and it's success [i.e.: his review, bonus, promotions, etc.] so you might expect him to only shout out the good stuff while hiding the ugly. But no, he tells the whole world the things that he feels Spaces needs to do better in order to satisfy him, as a customer of the service. Read his post, 5 things I dislike about MSN Spaces (part 2), to see what I mean.

I'm thrilled to be working for a company open-minded enough to allow it's employees to do this publicly. In my opinion, this is the best way for products and services to evolve...open, honest, critical feedback.

Previous "Things I like about working @ MSFT" posts: 1, 2, 3

~tod

tags: msn+spaces microsoft