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Oh, the person writing this blog post hasn't actually STARTED yet.
He sounds very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed optimistic eager to improve their software. "I'm going to make Edge as good as Chrome/Firefox!"
The people who join Microsoft going in with THAT kind of attitude are the ones whose souls are crushed the most by its oppressive culture.
Exploding offers are actually explicitly forbidden by my top 20 university's on-campus recruiting policy.
Nonetheless, a very famous tech company that was once very prolific, but by 2012, most people considered as their "second choice" company routinely issued exploding offers to CS students in late August/early September before anybody had a chance to interview elsewhere.
To this day, they still recruit on our campus, and while one of my best friends reneged on them to work at Google (which actually in retrospect turned out to be a very wise choice), I wasted a full year of my life at this second tier company; the actual employment experience proved to be as shady as their recruiting experience.
Needless to say, I was extremely unhappy there.