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it's entirely possible that my experience just doesn't mean anything in a big org, i should add: the different groups at microsoft or whatever seem to basically
by hprotagonist 5y ago
it's entirely possible that my experience just doesn't mean anything in a big org, i should add: the different groups at microsoft or whatever seem to basically be different companies entirely, so at that scale i have no idea what i'd think about this.
- mytailorisrich 5y ago> the different groups at microsoft or whatever seem to basically be different companies entirely That's fairly typical of any large company. But that's also mean that you are not shown the door by being rejected internally because you are as unknown as an external candidate, and the fact that you are an internal candidate won't make any difference. In fact, depending on company politics, being an internal candidate may even be a disadvantage.
- hprotagonist 5y ago>In fact depending on company politics, being an internal candidate may even be a disadvantage. tangentially also true in universities: there are unis that traditionally disfavor undergraduate alums from matriculation to graduate programs. "We taught you enough our way, go learn how to think differently somewhere else!"
- uxp100 5y agoYeah, my (very frank and helpful!) internal career counselor told me, whatever the CEO and promotional materials from HR say, be prepared for moving between groups to be much harder than moving within one, there will be bad blood afterwards, especially with how uncertain hiring was due to covid (18 months ago). If I transferred across the company, that would fulfill that groups req, without guaranteeing that the group I left would get one (since a non-official hiring freeze was in place). When I quit that job I noticed they started hiring for my position like 4 months later, so it did take them a while to get a req.