Just so we’re clear, all of the posts where I mention relo stuff are based on my experience the first time.  I’m not sure if these benefits are standard (though I think they are).  Your experience may vary from mine, so don’t quote me if something...

The hiring process doesn’t end when you accept the offer.  At least, not if you’re remote.  If you work in the same city as your destination team, the process is pretty much done.  Your new and old managers agree on a date, and you show...

Brad Wilson just posted his approach to handling the deluge of email here at Microsoft.  I use a different system than he does, so I thought I’d go ahead and post mine. I have three top-level folders in my Inbox.  Groups, Personal, and Projects...

I spent the last couple of days working on wrapping a native win32 api in managed code.  I’ve been tasked with working with the Task Scheduler portion of windows, which has a pretty good native API, but no managed API. I thought, ‘hey no problem...

Yesterday I got an email from the XNA Developer Connection team, containing my offer, and I accepted this morning! I’m incredibly excited to be starting a new job, on a new (to me) team, returning to my favorite discipline (dev), and working in the game...

Whew.  I’m tired after this week (well, last week, technically).  I was back in Redmond for my quarterly trip, and scheduled a few interviews. I had informational interviews with two teams, and started with one interview loop scheduled. ...

The second week of my job search was full of negative responses, with one positive response to lift the darkness.  The positive response was from a team in Windows Server, building a pretty cool new product.  Since this was an app, rather than...

Game studios want you have to have commercial game experience before you apply.  You can’t get commercial game experience without working at a game studio.  What do you do? First, there are other options.  It’s not as hopeless as it seems...

During week 1 and 2, I set up a saved search on the internal site, and starting digging through the available jobs.  I’m looking at all software development engineer (SDE or dev) jobs in Redmond.  I’m looking for jobs that are at my level, 1...

First, some information, so we’re all on the same page.  Internal transfers at Microsoft work just like the external hiring process.  We go to an internal version of http://www.microsoft.com/careers/ , which has all the same jobs.  We get...

In my last post, I talked about how I’m a semi-happy employee.  The reason I’m only semi-happy is that I work remotely, from my house.  Many folks think that working remotely is the bees’ knees.  For some people, it may be.  For me...

Here I am, yet another Microsoft blogger.  As is customary, I want to open with a little description of who I am, and where I come from. I'm a mostly-happy Microsoft employee.  I spent the first three years of my career in the test discipline...