My Year in Review: 2020

My Year in Review: 2020

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 [...]

Remote onboarding? Here are 6 tips on how to not go crazy

Remote onboarding? Here are 6 tips on how to not go crazy

I was always quite sure 2 things will never happen: working 100% remote and starting remotely as a Junior Software Engineer at Microsoft. But then the covid came and as you can imagine everything changed - I'm working from home since mid-March and I recently moved internally and joined Microsoft Teams Prague team (read about [...]

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

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

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 [...]