walbourn

My boss left for London yesterday, and the majority of my team leaves this weekend. That means I'll be mostly on my own all of next week. Hopefully nothing will blow up while I'm on watch, but one never knows. I'm going to daily meetings that normally are attended by others on my team, and frankly it is a wonder that Microsoft manages to ship anything with all the initiatives, processes, sign-offs, blocking departments, triage meetings, executive triage meetings, etc.

I've been here about a month, and I'm still feeling pretty overwhelmed. In addition to learning to be a D3D profiling expert, exploring the huge intraweb, and responding to customer issues via the bug tracking system, I'm supposed to have a set of 'review commitments' written for the coming year. As

loree points out, since I'm still learning the job it is a bit of a daunting task. My fellow SDE here has been working for Microsoft for about 2+ years, but he really doesn't seem to take most of this 'corporate fluff' too seriously, to the annoyance of our manager naturally. I'm trying to take it on more proactively, but I'm feeling mushy-headed about it.

I realize that the experience of working here is meant to make you feel like you always have to push, and I know I have much to learn about issues both technical and corporate. It beats being bored, but it isn't making me feel relaxed at the end of the day for damn sure...

In other news, I know have a nice shiny, happy LCD monitor and a wireless keyboard/mouse at work, so I can do my typing comfortably from 5 feet away.