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

12 July 20212 January 2024by Ela Mościcka | Helping you build and navigate a career 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 [...]

Hi and thanks for stopping by! My name is Ela Mościcka and I've been in the tech industry since 2011.

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.