I found this excellent article where a new Microsoft hire is interviewed. However this isn't a new hire to Microsoft - but rather a former Microsoftie that ended up working for Google, and now is coming back to Microsoft.
Most interesting to me is the discussion points here about developer productivity. The best part is the discussion of how Google does tech support: there is a "tech stop" on each floor where anyone can go to get a technical problem solved or swap hardware. They use a system to track what hardware you are allowed to request (based on role) and what you have checked out. The convenience and co-location apparently makes for a very productive situation.
Additionally the interviewee claims that quite/private space is crucial to development and that Google has that wrong - this is interesting to here as I have strongly believed in private workspaces for a long time.
The article also covers the Google "20% of time on personal projects", and organizational structure (which sounds broken to me).
http://no2google.wordpress.com/2007/06/24/life-at-google-the-microsoftie-perspective/
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