{"id":168,"date":"2010-11-08T22:29:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T06:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2010-11-15T12:06:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T20:06:23","slug":"joining-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/08\/joining-vmware\/","title":{"rendered":"joining VMware"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the flip side of leaving Microsoft<\/a>, I have now joined VMware<\/a>. \u00a0There, I’m going to conduct user research across the product portfolio. \u00a0I’m excited to have a geekier focus than I had at Microsoft — my two undergraduate degrees are in CS and math, so a geeky focus is perfectly in line with my own predilections.<\/p>\n

Today was my first day, which consisted mostly of new-hire orientation. \u00a0When I went through Microsoft’s orientation in Redmond five years ago, there were ~300 people in the room with me. \u00a0Today, there were 10 people in the room with me, and another ~20 on the phone. \u00a0Size of the class aside, the orientation was pretty similar in structure to those I’ve had at previous employers: why you should be happy you’ve joined the company, the benefits options available, the checklist of things you should get done in your first couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

I’ve been tweeting as I go through my new experience, so you can follow me on twitter here<\/a> if you’re so inclined. \u00a0There, you’ll see exciting slices of my life such as the plastic pink flamingo<\/a> I found tucked in some landscaping today, not to mention a picture of my new office<\/a>. \u00a0Tomorrow, I plan to find the turtles<\/a>, which I think are near the cafeteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the flip side of leaving Microsoft, I have now joined VMware. \u00a0There, I’m going to conduct user research across the product portfolio. \u00a0I’m excited to have a geekier focus than I had at Microsoft — my two undergraduate degrees are in CS and math, so a geeky focus is perfectly in line with my … Continue reading joining VMware<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nadyne","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}