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Interesting they don't grant you enough credit as a Microsoft employee to dog food your own products. $300 a year seems a tiny amount. I never worked at Amazon
by killingtime74 10mo ago
Interesting they don't grant you enough credit as a Microsoft employee to dog food your own products. $300 a year seems a tiny amount.
I never worked at Amazon but understand they give you generally open ended access for learning/testing?
Surely there plenty of business value in getting someone like the author to ensure Rust applications run smoothly with all their products.
- fib11235 10mo agoFor the 5 years I've been at Microsoft it's always been $150 monthly.
- killingtime74 10mo agoInteresting. So the premise of the article is wrong, where he says he only gets $300 a year. Apparently he even works in Azure. Would have thought he would get more given the role.
- hirsin 10mo agoYes, it's the standard Visual Studio Enterprise credit that you get with the license - 150/month https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/member-offers/credit-for-visual-studio-subscribers/#visual-studio-subscription https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/member-offers/cred...
- CodeCompost 10mo agoWhich means that you need a Visual Studio Enterprise license that costs $500 a month, unless you can get it though partnership programs. I take it OP doesn't have an Enterprise license.
- hirsin 10mo agoEvery Microsoft employee is given a license as part of working there, at least if you're in the eng orgs. I've had mine for over a decade.
- brikym 10mo agoBut it's a restricted type of subscription. For example you can't reserve instances.