{"id":1020855,"date":"2026-07-14T11:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020855"},"modified":"2026-07-14T11:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:39:30","slug":"google-vs-microsoft-as-a-workplace-techie-says-one-gave-me-polish-other-gave-me-depth-in-viral-linkedin-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/14\/google-vs-microsoft-as-a-workplace-techie-says-one-gave-me-polish-other-gave-me-depth-in-viral-linkedin-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Google vs Microsoft as a workplace: Techie says one \u2018gave me polish,\u2019 other \u2018gave me depth\u2019 in viral LinkedIn post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For software engineers, choosing between tech giants like Google and Microsoft is the ultimate career dilemma. While compensation and perks often dominate the conversation, a Bengaluru-based techie is making waves online for breaking down the unseen cultural differences between the two tech behemoths.<\/p>\n<p>Manu Agarwal, a Senior Software Engineer currently at Microsoft, recently took to LinkedIn to share a candid comparison of his experiences working at both companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For software engineers, choosing between tech giants like Google and Microsoft is the ultimate career dilemma. While compensation and perks often dominate the conversation, a Bengaluru-based techie is making waves online for breaking down the unseen cultural differences between the two tech behemoths. Manu Agarwal, a Senior Software Engineer currently at Microsoft, recently took to LinkedIn to share a candid comparison of his experiences working at both companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020856,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020855\/revisions\/1020856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}