For those who haven't heard of mini before, this site was like Blind but only for Microsoft 20 years ago.
The blogger was anonymous but claimed to be a partner, which is a high level at Microsoft. He openly criticized aspects of the culture and company's direction. Notably he thought the company had gotten too big and needed to have fewer employees (hence the mini Microsoft moniker).
Employees would share salaries, bonuses, and raises every year after reviews in a giant thread of anonymous comments.
Mini-Microsoft is male (reported in both interviews).
He is married (reported in both interviews and occasionally referred to on the site).
At least one co-worker has figured out his identity (reported by Danny Westneat)."
Thank you; wasn't aware that MM had assumed their gender in interviews. Although it seems the obvious thing to say, to avoid getting discovered (even if MM is actually female or non-binary).
This is important. I was initially shocked to hear of a big round of layoffs at Microsoft, until I saw the date. Maybe we can add the year to the link?
Definitely some ML models today capable of identifying writers from their textual idiosyncracies...
Although I guess some adversarial code will extend it, the days of being truly "Anonymous" (and therefore liberated to speak on topics like this) are probably almost over.
The blogger was anonymous but claimed to be a partner, which is a high level at Microsoft. He openly criticized aspects of the culture and company's direction. Notably he thought the company had gotten too big and needed to have fewer employees (hence the mini Microsoft moniker).
Employees would share salaries, bonuses, and raises every year after reviews in a giant thread of anonymous comments.