Visual Studio Is Hiring!

I'd really love to work on a product like Visual Studio. A great change to create tools to write better, faster and cleaner code. But I don't think I can work from home in europe, or can I?

Thanks for your interest!  Generally speaking we prefer the core engineering team local in Redmond, WA (although we can make exceptions).  Microsoft does a great job in helping with (and usually paying for) relocation expenses & visa process, so if you have any interest in trying out a new place or want more information, please apply to one of the positions and we can talk about it! :-)

Peter Hauge [MSFT]

If hired, can I request an office next to Scott Hanselman? ;)  And a bull horn?

Maybe you can move some of the new guys to the XAML code-editor team so it gets usable for the final of SP1!

Maintaining XAML code with VS2010 SP1 Beta still sucks as hell. Sorry - found no nicer words for this part of VS2010. Performance for resource-dictionaries with more then a few hundred lines is unusable (every few keystrokes one get a lag of 15 secs up to 2 mins). Worst is that this major blocker issue seems to exists even in SP1 beta even if you guys (eg. ScottGu) pushes Silverlight development.

I think that a job with Microsoft for those in our industry working on tools in the .NET realm would probably be the pinnacle of one's career. Working for the company that is responsible for the technology that has been the center of my career and software engineering life would be quite an experience.

Would C++ not be considered a "core" language?  I feel so unloved.

Michael, this is a case where the organizational structures for Visual Studio happen to bleed through.  The managed language teams (C#, VB, and F#) are part of the larger Visual Studio Pro team--the team for which these particular open jobs are available.  The C++ language team is an entirely separate organization.  We certainly didn't mean to slight C++ as a core part of Visual Studio.

@Matthew: it's just that the VC team has just spent quite a lot of effort on their blog trying to convince their users that "we're a real core part of VS, honest! It might look like we've been the red-headed stepchild for the last decade, but we're *that* close with the rest of the VS guys, really!" ;)

Thanks for the explanation though.

Of course, if the C++ team is a completely separate organization, one might speculate that this in itself would make them less "core". ;)

Here is my resume: agafonov.net.ua/DownloadCv  Could you answer do I have a chance to work in some of these projects.

I haven't updated my resume for a while, but I wonder if this post qualifies as one for the occasion. Below is a list of my side projects - all open source, all dealing with Visual Studio integration:

workflowserver.com: - workflow engine backed by an advanced Object Relational Mapper. Includes integrated with VS code generator for generating C# classes based on the XML Schema for the entity. My current customer built his entire mission critical system using workflow server as foundation

ndjango.com: - implementation of django templating language for .NET. Written in F#. Includes template editor for VS2010 with full blown intellisense support

fsprojectextender.codeplex.com: born out of frustration with how F# projects are managed in VS Solution Explorer.

github.com/.../Boo-Plugin: Implements language service for Boo language

This post makes it seem that the release of Roslyn is still far off. Please say it ain't so ;). For me it's actually the most exciting feature coming to C#.

Sounds interesting.

@BarfieldMV: Look at www.microsoft-careers.com (there you have a world map + open locations - also lot of open positions in Europe - but I am afraid that Developers are only hired at Redmond, USA ;-))