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Damm, I don't understand a word of that job posting. "Compete muscle" and yada yadda, I mean FTW.

Does Microsoft expect applicants to know what all these internal terms mean? Or is this a listing more for internal candidates?

If you’re looking for a new role where you’ll focus on one of the biggest issues that is top of mind for KT and Steve B in “Compete”, build a complete left to right understanding of the subsidiary, have a large amount of executive exposure, build and manage the activities of a v-team of 13 district Linux& Open Office Compete Leads, and develop a broad set of marketing skills and report to a management team committed to development and recognized for high WHI this is the position for you!

And apparently this job is also for you if you hate grammar...

looks like an internal job ad (to me) that got disclosed incorrectly.

Looks internal, but it also looks like they're hiring marketing folk, not engineers. I think that's more likely the reason that it sounds like gibberish. If a marketing person saw an ad looking for someone with experience in T-SQL in Perl (or whatever), it would probably sound equally bizarre.

Lots of those acronyms and abbreviations are microsoft internal, i think. They're not generic marketing. I also think they disclose a lot about the nature of internal senior management structure- who reports to who.

An example: "KT and SteveB" are probably Kevin Turner (COO) and Steve Ballmer.

You're right. Those are Microsoft internal jargon.

"compete": Term used for "not Microsoft" (I came from "compete")

"v- team": This position will have contractors working for them. Contractors working for Microsoft have usernames in the format: /[a-z]\-[a-z]+/. Contractors or "Vendors" have usernames starting with 'v-'

I agree with you, they're certainly Microsoft-internal terms. But more specifically, they're Microsoft marketing -internal.

"...to win share against Linux and OpenOffice.org...". Looks like somebody is scared. I like that very much :D But seriously, who would take that job? Somebody who understands a lot about Linux but then decides to "fight" against it?

How did you get 10 upvotes for a two sentence comment, the first boasting about how you don't understand something(!), and the second being an incomprehensible mash of a two word quote, a misspelled dismissive phrase and an unclear acronym ('For The Win'?).

I'm willing to bet the upvotes came from people with accounts less than six months old...

Damn those idiotic ingrates, I wish they'd get off my lawn.

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