Matthew Whilden, a Microsoft senior software engineer, operates an excavator under the watchful eye of PCI Democon supervisor Gordon Bowman during the kickoff of building demolition as part of the modernization of Microsoft's Redmond campus. Whilden and his engineering team bid on an employee giving campaign auction for the opportunity to demolish the first few buildings. (Steve Ringman/Seattle Times/TNS)
Microsoft software engineers tried their hand operating some heavy-duty hardware on the company's Redmond campus on Jan 8, using an excavator to start tearing down a building as the company kicked off the demolition phase of its campus-modernisation project.
Matthew Whilden, a senior software engineer, and his engineering teammates bid through Microsoft's Employee Giving Campaign auction for the opportunity to do some demo work on the first few buildings, using sledgehammers and the "claw".
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