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Career change: my 1st year as a Software Engineer at Microsoft

12 July 20219 May 2023by Ela Mościcka | Helping you land a job in techLeave a Comment

Celebrating 7 years at Microsoft and my first year as a Software Engineer after the career change: from recruitment to software engineering role at ‘Microsoft Teams’ Prague team!

This post will be a mix of my thoughts/learnings from my 1st year as a Software Engineer at Microsoft: it is not about “I delivered x amount of features in XYZ areas” or “I had a chance to do this and that”.

Quite the opposite: it’s a very personal post about what was happening with me, what challenges I was overcoming. And while I knew that changing my career won’t be easy, I think I didn’t expect some of the below to happen.

I don’t see many posts of what is really going ‘behind the scene’ with those who went through a career change this is why I’m sharing below.

Hopefully, you can be better prepared and avoid some of the things I’ve experienced.

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Becoming a Software Engineer at Microsoft [Q and A]

29 March 20219 May 2023by Ela Mościcka | Helping you land a job in tech13 Comments

There is a lot of advice online for people interested in joining Microsoft as a Software Engineers.

In this post, I decided to share with you my first-hand experience and answer the most common questions I’m receiving throughout my career from Developers interested in working at Microsoft.

I’m sure that my article will help you clarify some of your doubts as well as get a better understanding of how to get a Software Engineering role at Microsoft.

[Read about my journey into software engineering]
*please note that the below answers are based on my work experience and refers to Engineering teams in Europe

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My Year in Review: 2020

6 February 202110 May 2023by Ela Mościcka | Helping you land a job in techLeave a Comment

What a year it was! After 9 years in tech recruitment (and 6 amazing years at the Microsoft Engineering Recruitment team as a Talent Sourcer) I’ve finally reached my goal of becoming a Software Engineer at Microsoft!

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My journey into Software Engineering

20 December 202010 May 2023by Ela Mościcka | Helping you land a job in tech14 Comments

I was thinking about writing this kind of a summary of my journey into software engineering for quite some time. And even though it is still ongoing, I decided to share it as I truly believe that “sharing is caring”: maybe it will inspire someone else to follow their dreams, maybe someone is also learning how to code and is having one of the “Omg, I don’t know anything and can’t code” moments. Whatever the reason is, I hope you’ll enjoy reading it 😉

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Hi and thanks for stopping by! My name is Ela Mościcka and I've been in the tech industry for more than 12 years.

I'm bringing unique knowledge, skillset, and expertise by combining two worlds: tech recruitment and software engineering.

As a Software Engineer at the "Microsoft Teams" team, I work on a product that is being used by more than 250 million monthly active users. My primary area of responsibility (and something I'm passionate about) is E2E tests and Accessibility.

Before the career change, I was one of the top Talent Sourcers at the Microsoft EMEA Engineering Recruitment team where I specialized in building new Software Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams as well as growing existing ones.