Bill Gates in 1989 On His Hiring Process, Microsoft's Seattle Area Office
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- In a 1989 NBC "Today Show" interview, Bill Gates explains why he chose not to locate his company in Silicon Valley. He also shares what he was looking for in job candidates. At the time, Microsoft had just over 4,000 employees.
If you wanted a job with Microsoft at the height of the personal computer revolution, you only needed to display two qualities - at least, that's what Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told NBC's "Today" show in 1989.
Gates, who was then just 33 years old and still CEO of the tech giant, told NBC's Jane Pauley that job candidates' age and experience were less important than their enthusiasm for work and their belief in making computers more accessible for the average person.
"Well, we'll hire people at any age as long as they're super energetic and they want to make personal computers easier to use," Gates says before admitting that most new Microsoft employees were on the younger side. "But, we end up hiring mostly people right out of college or business school."
Of course, new hires also needed "to be smart before they come in," Gates adds, but Microsoft also wanted bright, but malleable, candidates who could be easily trained. "We give them a lot of training on the job, we put them right to work," he says. "But, no, we don't expect that they know a lot about [the work] before they get there."
In other words, in 1989, Microsoft didn't exactly expect every job candidate to be as adept at writing software as the company's co-founders - Gates and Paul Allen developed the programming language software that launched Microsoft in 1975. New hires were expected to be smart, enthusiastic and ready to learn.
Gates also tells Pauley why the company was headquartered in the Seattle area instead of Silicon Valley.
First, said Gates, "I grew up in Seattle, so as soon as my company had over 20 people, I decided to move it back here." (He and Paul Allen co-founded the company in Albuquerque, New Mexico.)
But also, "in California, in Silicon Valley, ... a lot of things happen but the rumor mill makes it hard to keep secrets and employees switch from company to company," he says. In Seattle, "we're able to keep our secrets and, you know, be really on our own," Gates says in the interview.
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Bill Gates in 1989 On His Hiring Process, Microsoft's Seattle Area Office
With those Windows he's wearing it's no wonder he can see the future.
hahahahahaha
😂
Just because you're a billionaire it doesn't mean you have the answer to everything! He's going to get you all killed! He's the devil!
King TravisSearles What?
@@travissearles23 I think nobody has saved more lives than Bill
He still sound the same at age 33 to now
Some people's voices luckily never age.
Ex: Bill Murray looks much older now but still has the EXACT SAME VOICE as his SNL days.
Creepy
This guy is evil
I should know
Oh yeah yeah is dead
33 years old? Looks like a freshman.
33 years old is still young lol
Well he never graduated, so...
@@billoddy5637 😂😂👍🏻
@Karan Hello, King of your own tribe?
@Karan I will take care of them 👍 Do you need any weapons or are you well prepared? :)
The right employee can make you millions while the wrong one can cost you millions of dollars and a lot of headaches!
@@Books_Makeup That is a fascinating question! I would love to see if his interviews have evolved or stayed roughly the same!
Bill gate back then was a gangster.
which one are you Calvin?
Ahh, back in the day when companies were willing to teach the less experienced. Now you have to know javascript, python, html/css just to get your application in the system.
And that's just for McDonald's cashiers!
Plus at least 10 years of experience
@@Jeffery99 and the max age should be 20
But html css javascript are basic web development tools. Of course you need to know them. Can't get more basic than that.
I know people with C.S degrees and they can’t code! Other say if you old like 28+ will be hard for you to find job in software industry!
I am 33 year old watching this guy in TH-cam with snacks and thinking someone will hire me. 😂
your so old!!!!! I'm a fetus
@HSM shut up and stop criticizing people's grammar you neckbeard
@SilentwarH uh dude I haven't corrected anyone here.
@SilentwarH when why push the blame on me????
Tony Hawk if he was a nerd
Now I cant unseen that lol
Tony Hawk was a genius and so was Rodney Mullen.
when it's rainy, people work hard, lol
Which means most of the year lol
Seattle so 8 months out of the year
@SilentwarH true, in my country it is sunny most of thr year (I think 300 days) when it is overcast or when it is raining lightly it is awesome to peopel here, they go to the beach and take photos of the wet street and go out for a walk
Oh wow, so the benefit of being in Seattle was to feel safe from Silicon valley competition? Interesting stuff.
Is not that they had a shortage of candidates, in the mid-90s, MS got an average of 100k job applications per year
"We don't expect that they know a lot about it when they get there..." Imagine getting a great job without at least 3-5 years prior experience doing the exact same job your applying for.
Agreed. Times are indeed different nowadays I'm afraid.
Yeah it sucks now. I already lost my motivation to study college only to be "lucky" to find a gig economy job with below surviving wage.
Gates: Seattle is a great place
2020: [hold my beer]
Loool
Hold my Communist Manifesto while I molotov cocktail the sh!+ outa this place
now they expect you to have 10 years of experience in HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Python and be under the age of 20
competition is stiffer now.
Wtf how was he that insightful at that time.
Just because he is younger than 50 doesn't make him less insightful.
He's been like that since day 1
is that really hard to believe. They guy created Microsoft.
at 33 ???
@@dareolushina4391 he just looks like a child lol
Somehow he speaks every time in the same way no matter if he is 60 or 30 hmm interesting
Even at 90 he will speak like that also at 120 &150
He’s like recognized his speech
vivek patil true
How?! He looks like he hasn’t even finished puberty, what is this mans genes
because he is woman.
@@genavieveshaw5654 how ??
nerdy lifestyle
Probably adrenocrhome...
Adrenachrom
It looks like this guy may be success one day
Are you serious? This guy is ultra successful. Probably one of the most successful singers in history. His album topped billboards around the world an outside of it. He literally owns the music industry right now.
@@elvillivle and besides that, he is a well known actor!
All these things, u guys are saying are his side gigs, i think he might be successful with the computer stufff
I always imagined that Silicon Valley didn't exist until like 10-15 years ago.
Silicon Valley has existed for about 70 years now
Lolololol
Goes all the way back to Bell labs
Bill gates parla di ridurre la popolazione e chip sottopelle (mettete i sottotitoli) massima diffusione!
m.th-cam.com/video/6Eud3S-V4So/w-d-xo.html#menu
Consider that Hewlett-Packard was founded in Palo Alto in 1939...
Bezos definitely watched this interview. Haha
When its raining people work hard. So True.
Maybe that's why Bezos also picked Seattle 😂
It is really a great thing that CNBC is focusing more on his business past. He truly is a brilliant man but I think he is capable of doing really great things that require real drive and energy but instead he spends his time doing philanthropic work.
What you may not know is his Philanthropy requires the hardest form of drive and energy. Monitoring multiple projects in Africa and beyond and making sure his scientists advance the plight of people in third world countries with innovative ideas is no small feat. All the while maintaining a stupendous amount of wealth...
Lool what? Are you trolling? “Rather he spends his time doing philanthropic work”. Isn’t that the best thing he can be doing with his mind? Like Femi said it requires great intelligence to even do the work he’s doing the way he does it. And he also did “really great things that require real drive and energy” with Microsoft. He’s also doing it again with the foundation.
In Seattle when it is raining people work hard. In my country when it is raining people take off from work.
This is the best Seattle ad I've watched in my life
He looks like he smoked a blunt before taking that picture
Gates created Windows.
I LOVE PUNS
Nice
And he was wearing them
Sayan Malakar no he didn't he conned someone out of it.
"He doesn't work for money, he has money work for him"
Spot on!!
Rich Dad poor Dad?
umm no
You mean his dads money
Money doesn't work. He has people work for him.
I love your sentence because its pure ideology at play here.
Wow hiring people out of business school? Must have been nice back then.
I think he meant software engineers etc.
@@fahadus both
@@fahadus you don't think Microsoft has people with business degrees as execs?
@@directorbeau not straight out of college
"when it's raining people work hard", last few days it's raining here and I am not able to focus at all 😆
Every bio written about Bill Gates says he was a genius but a PAIN IN THE BUTT to work for (same with Steve Jobs).
Still, I consider myself a fan of his due to Microsoft and his charity work.
Ikr
And now, probably a lot cheaper to live in Seattle.
at 0:25 is Mark Zuckerberg. He is getting "training on the job" at Microsoft.
@SoundCloud Copyright Free Music woosh
Strong youth ,that's a old young man.
Bill Gates was always super clear about what he wanted to do and what Microsoft has got to do!
Bill aged well. I'm 31 and i look like i could be his dad
Are u dead or alive?
Now you have to pay $70,000 and invest 4 years into a degree just for the BARE MINIMUM requirements
Success always leaves clues 🔥
And you always leave pointless comments on videos.
It's only pointless if you fail to understand it
Thank you for sharing .
Bill gate back then was a gangster.
One thing is clear for me when it’s raining Seattle needs Supersonic team even more:(
Feels like a half an hour long documentary
Still Bills Voice Hasn’t Change Due To Getting Old Unlike Other Old Dudes.
It’s called adrenochrome 😉
When it is raining, people work hard, LoL
Seattle is the next silicon valley
Larry Ellison just left the chat.
His glasses were more protective than dioptric
perfect response to basically a troll question from the reporter
What is a "troll question"?
Who spot the part where he implied that they moved to Seattle to give devs less option if they wanted to switch jobs lol
-Canidant came for secretary job interview
-Bill: write me a code
Genius. Amazing work ethics these people have 👍
Bill Gates change his passion to a amazing profession
I heard about that guy a long time ago, Bill Gates. Whatever happened to him and his company? Probably washed up by now. Glad I never bought any stock.
He is a demonic fool.
The King of Kings Yashua Hamashiaj is coming! Reprehend him!
1:17 'All right then, keep your secrets'
People like him don’t lead they change the world.
People asking why he looks young at 33. Many men don’t age between 21-36 but after 36-38 you’ll start getting weaker and older quicker. It’s like the older you get the faster you’ll get older by the year if that makes sense.
Right out of college or business school? Blasphemy; everyone knows entry levels workers need 10 years of experience in a senior management position before you can even look at their application.
this was 1989.
Could those glasses BE any bigger?
Excellent Mr.Bill gates. I just bought Window 10, it is an excellent product. You have a good team to work with you. Fantastic! Thank you for everything you do for us.
He isn't gonna read this.
You sound like you're under duress
lol @@therankingworld7627
@@kakatuaOfficial whats wrong to thank him...lol..of course he isn't going to reply, its obvious.
@@johnapple6584 He's done nothing for me. I thank projects like wikipedia or linux because I use their products free of charge. But he is one of the richest people in the planet by destroying competition and bribing governments.
How does he do the same thing nowadays when looking for covid-19 vaccines?
"easier to keep secrets I'm Seattle" ahhh innocent times
He's now selling vaccines.
Which is a good thing
@@lilraination7264 Too dumb and naive to understand what's going on now? That's pretty bad 😂
Not a single message of Healthcare and Vaccines.
33 year old me at 2020
Watch you tube all the time
Mr. Gates Charisma Is Off The Roof
33?!
Freemasonry
Those glasses...
I love hearing him talk. He’s so smart how does he have this militant mind of business tactics and confidence?
I have never been to Seattle. 😊I 'd like to go to trip to Seattle and to meet you. 😊❤
His voice is never change
Voice never changed
Why we even take the time to comment on this? I feel guilty.
Thank you
I love working here ❤
Interesting. Basically he wanted to avoid attrition also. Well played Bill.
No state income tax is a plus too
#FallCabal
Looking baked asfuk in the thumbnail
33 is the illuminati number.
Crazy how his voice has not changed lol
Lol. This is a completely standard hiring process for software companies.
Did those 100000+ people include the ones living in India?
Majority are US population
“33”... of course, why am I not surprised?
Philip Erdman my thoughts too. It’s kind of like they’re rubbing it in your face.
I don't get it
Mingdian Li just start looking up 33 and freemasonry and eventually you’ll get it
33...symbolism
Come on... People have an age lol..
It's his age. It comes after 32.
I clicked cuz I thought it was Seth Green lol
Here's how the interviews went...
Gates: Are you willing to have a needle jabbed into you whenever I ask?
99% of Applicants: GFY
Good points made against Silicon Valley location.
I didn’t know Ellen had glasses
Never trust a thief
He outwitted that reporter
Bill Gates at the optical: "I want the biggest eyeglasses known to mankind, money is not a concern"
actaully bill gates eyeglasses were popular in the 1980s
😂
I don't tryst people who don't share
The making of a murderer. Part 1
@Rafael Acosta soooo true...the murderer thing
😂😂
The vaccine expert
Anyone still moving to Seattle these days?
What r those secrets you gotta find them
So he chose Seattle because it's raining all the time so employees work hard all the time
and also no state income tax and also it's far away from silicon valley.
Adds are getting smarter....
He hasn't changed his hand gestures one bit.
Just hire Steve Jobs he's energetic and he simplified computers
Steve would be the first to ignore the easy ant thing used by everybody all the time.
@1:19 the truth
When it's raining do people like to work?
Original format gates. Amazing to see something retro