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As a programmer, I've had numerous colleagues who have ended up as software engineers at MS. They were mostly either unbelievably lazy or extremely incompetent. The rest who were both ended up there as managers.
Microsoft's technology specialist are top notch regarding their own product. The other 90% are sales(wo)men and their managers.