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Why have true faith with Microsoft staffing?

I was sitting beside the test Mgr of Sql team in shuttle bus went home together yesterday.
He's a western, worked for Microsoft for 4 years, and before that, had worked for large & start up software companies.
He choosed to work in SQL team Shanghai voluntarily, now he leads the team for MDAC testing.
Over the chatting, he's pretty proud of: what we are doing now, is the best compares with Redmond did before. MDAC team wins the respect, we are the strongest. We own the component independently.

Why do you work for Microsoft:
I still believe Microsoft is the best place for programmer to go, only look at the huge product families, has almost everything. I have worked for different types of companies...

So, why I staffing for Microsoft?

First of all, because the bar is very high, and it won't be lowered because of hard to find great candidates...Of course, which makes staffing a challenging job, while, on the contrary, which builts the truth faith for Microsoft staffing: we have the smart people, great team, doing cutting edge products. Isn't it the best selling point to those great programmers?

Second:
You don't like to manage people, what your interests is in programming, fine, keep what you like to do, you own the engineer's title, yet could get paid by your contribution level.
You like to manage people, fine, from engineer, you could be development or test lead, group manager, product unit manager and vice president.
Current GM of STB Shanghai was a test engineer. Current GM of SQL China R&D team was a dev.

Third, we have the policy for internal rotation.
An employee worked for more than 1 year, he's eligible for internal rotation with his manager's approval.
And once he worked for more than 1.5 year, even his manager's approval is not required.
The policy, which means, if you are software development engineer of test for one product, free for you to go to another product group as software development engineer or a program manager.
Even, an HR could apply program manager's position as well.
We offer comprehensive opportunities for them to grow.

Based on above, I have confidence & faith in Microsoft staffing.
I have seem people chasing after opportunities, have not seem opportunities chasing after people.
Don't apply for a work, grab a chance to change the life.

You ready facing the change?

tags: staffing MS culture

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