Why I joined Microsoft
<i>though I was getting daily emails from Microsoft recruiters</i><p>Really? They were emailing every day? I call shenanigans, no-one wants to hire ANYONE that badly...<p><i>I sat there with my jaw on the floor–for those of you who don’t know what Cosmos DB is, it’s the first globally distributed, multi-model database service for building planet scale apps</i><p>Started doing the evangelism already I see! This whole blog post is just a PR puff piece! That line is pretty much taken verbatim from the CosmosDB website - &quot;planet scale apps&quot; indeed.<p>For those that were wondering what Developer Advocates do it&#x27;s exactly this: write blog posts as if they&#x27;re just engineers like you, but rave about how amazing their employers are.<p>FWIW I even like Microsoft, Azure is my cloud of choice, but this kind of marketing activity is pretty condescending in my personal opinion. I like to keep things on a pure engineering level, technical merits only, warts and all.