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My Year in Review: 2020

6 February 202116 September 2023by Ela Mościcka | Helping you build and navigate a career 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! Beginning of the year Our child was still recovering after the surgery and let's just say that all [...]

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My journey into a Software Engineering role at Microsoft (no CS degree)!

20 December 202023 October 2023by Ela Mościcka | Helping you build and navigate a career in tech15 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 [...]

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.