![]() Make sure you apply for a role that gives you an edge to where you want to go, and look forward to 2-3 years learning the trade and making yourself known.Īnd absolutely watch Ignite, even if you believe yourself to be illiterate right now. MS-900 is an expectation for you to have done withing your first 6 months of joining.Īs of very recently, CSAM had become a much larger entity within Microsoft which should mean more ways of getting in and finding yourself in the role you want to be in. ![]() Every area's focus right now is in knowing security, with a big drive expected on Azure for H2. And if not now, definitely use Microsoft Learn anyway and learn all you need to know without the exam piece.ĪZ-900, MS-900 and SC-900 are the key ones to start with, especially that last one. To put your mind at ease, Microsoft employees are able to expand their knowledge with free learning and exams for qualifications, so you should be able to catch up and make yourself indispensable if you got in. And definitely research cloud and mobility as u/coukou76 has said in their comment - Microsoft is first and foremost a services company that happens to have a hardware and software arm. "Empower" is a pivotal word that you could center an interview around since it's quite literally the motto of the company. If you are looking to apply for a similar field as the city planning job, look into how your past experience qualifies you and how Microsoft services would empower your workload and how you would like to empower your team the same way. You can be taught what the technologies are early on, but you can't be taught the way you behave and collaborate with others. You're more likely to be chosen if you have a growth mindset and you show capacity to learn and work on yourself as opposed to someone who rocks up with all the technical terminology in their back pocket but has a poor work ethic. The interview process works more as a personality test. I'd also like to add that typically the interview isn't about what you know unless you jump straight into the higher roles, which there is very little opportunity or chance to do. What everyone has said about why you would like to work at Microsoft, updating LinkedIn and what your ambitions are reads true. Maybe try some younger, smaller companies instead. Sorry, didn't mean to be a Debbie downer lol. It's as close to a government job in the corporate world as you can get. Microsoft won't be much different, especially in your early years, unless you're in sales. Right now I feel like I'm just going through the motions in my government cubicle. Honestly, years of service might be less toxic than that. ![]() It's all office politics and empire building. Promotions don't come from merit, especially if you aren't an engineer. It's a stereotypical large corporate culture. ![]() Rewarded for the quality of my work and not just my number of years of service. Work for a company that's large enough where if I get bored in one role / division there's the ability to switch to another People get a job at Microsoft to retire comfortably in 40 years, not change the world. Aside from a few rockstars, people clock in and clock out. It's actually one of the oldest in tech.Īnd it's a huge corporation, not a startup. I love Microsoft but "not shady" is the last term I'd use to describe them. Basically a data gatherer like Google but installed on your machine. Their software has a bunch of government backdoors.Īnd their main operating system is becoming a service instead of a product. They had an official policy called EEE (embrace, enhance, extinguish) to deliberately stifle any "dangerous" and potentially competitive outside innovation. Microsoft seems the least intrusive / sketchy out of the bunch It's a 40 year old company that still deals with a lot of legacy technology from 30 years ago. This is something you won't find at Microsoft and similar companies. Been interested in technology and how quickly it moves forward
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