Troubling Exits At Microsoft

Posted by tadelste on Sep 16, 2005 7:21 AM EDT
MSNBC Business Week Online; By Jay Greene, with Steve Hamm, Diane Brady, and Mara Der Hovanesian in New York
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During the two-day hearing he painted a distinctly unflattering picture of the company's inner workings. Lee, who opened Microsoft's research lab in China in 1998 and moved to headquarters in Redmond, Wash., two years later, fretted over what he saw as repeated missteps. In court he detailed how the more than 20 product-development centers in China tripped over one another, duplicating efforts and even fighting over the same job candidate. Lee called the company "incompetent." After the ruling he praised Google, noting, "the culture is very supportive, collaborative, innovative, and Internet-like -- and that's bottoms-up innovation rather than top-down direction."

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