Brandon Live!

We’re hiring!  We’re building out a new test team based in Redmond, and we need your help!  We have a pretty small, close-knit, fast-moving product team - and our developers love to do what others have deemed impossible.   As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you’ll help us make sure we deliver the highest quality product possible to our users. 

You’ll define test strategy for your features.  You’ll interact with a team of remote testers.  You’ll build automation systems and tools to help testers and developers.  You’ll be a voice for our users and you’ll have the responsibility of improving the user experience for literally millions of users world-wide. 

We’re looking for SDE/Ts with good communication skills, experience with C++/C#, and a strong understanding of software design.  Bonuses would be an understanding of COM, .NET interop, and 64-bit development.  We’re looking for the best and brightest to improve the Windows Desktop Search platform, content indexing, developer APIs, and cutting-edge UI.  You’ll work with consumer and enterprise users as well as teams throughout Microsoft including Windows, Office, and Windows Live.

If you’re interested, or know someone who is, check out the links below:

SDE/T Position on MS Careers site. (A little outdated, but mostly accurate)

Please submit a resume (for job 139746 or 139744) and we’d also love it if you’d e-mail us (which will help get things moving).

We also have Dev and PM positions that we’re looking to fill.  So if you’re interested in either of those disciplines, let me know!

This weekend is the first Seattle Mind Camp.  They have a nice overview of the event here.  Or you can read all about it in the news here (Seattle Times) and here (Seattle PI).

The latter refers to it as a kind of “Geek slumber party.”

The Mind Camp website has a list of the names of attendees, and mine is among them.  Just a few of the familiar names are Dare Obasanjo, Chris Pirillo, Robert Scoble, Mike Torres, Liz Lawley, Brady Forrest, and of course Ponzi.

A reader noticed via Scoble’s blog that I was attending, and asked if I would accept some questions he’d like me to bring up during the discussions.  I think that’s a great idea.

So if you have a question, concern, or topic that you think should be discussed - post it here!  I’ll check the list periodically during the event via my Pocket PC Phone and after the event I’ll post a wrap-up of what was covered.

It’s a 24-hour event, so give me everything you’ve got!