Bubba Murarka

My exit interview was pretty uneventful Mini. Your blog post title made me laugh pretty hard though…+1.

The interview was given by a nice FTE HR person based in Redmond and we covered the agenda in about 15 minutes.  She was very polite and was genuinely interested in making sure I had all the info I needed to get COBRA setup, contact Benefits with any questions and ensure I understood my contractual obligations towards MSFT.  All in all, a pleasant and civilized goodbye. 

One thing struck me as we walked through the questions on why I left and if I had any feedback to provide:  there should be a third party vendor that solicits this on behalf of MSFT after an employee officially leaves the payroll.  I felt pretty comfortable being open and honest with my reason for leaving the company, but not sure if everyone would be.  While this may result in a bunch of noise in the feedback from folks who choose to vent instead of providing actionable feedback it feels like an untapped data source for “the real deal”.   Maybe that is what the Strategic People Analysis group does…anyone know?

Unfortunately, I can’t post the Thinkweek Paper I wrote - sorry to those who pinged me for it.  If you work at MSFT you can find it on the thinkweek fall 2005 sharepoint (thanks TM) thinkweek2 website under winter 2005 submissions.  I have to call out that the paper was only a start and a lot of follow up work is still being done by a group of folks committed to driving meaningful change (hopefully some of them will blog about what they get done so we can follow along).  Dennis Pilarinos was really amazing in pushing for concrete actions to increase transparency.  Buy him a cup of coffee if you have enjoyed the new content that has been appearing on corpnet or have ideas for more changes you’d like to see.  Oh, and make sure to give hrweb a deep read once a year…it is amazing what they have been putting up there! 

Thanks to the all of the friends who dropped by or sent me a note this past week!  I’ll share some initial experiences later this week after I finish getting my new laptop up and running. 

 updated 10/8: fixed ref to thinkweek paper location per comments