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This. I worked at Microsoft for nearly 14 years. I had the privilege of working on 4 very different teams (microBrowser, Palladium/Bitlocker, Robotics, Midori)
by pacaro 11y ago
This.
I worked at Microsoft for nearly 14 years. I had the privilege of working on 4 very different teams (microBrowser, Palladium/Bitlocker, Robotics, Midori)
So in many respects it was like working at 4 different companies, in that respect I avoided the pigeonhole trap (which certainly also applies when you do move companies) but over time I accumulated corporate cruft which ended up dragging me down. Moving to a new company allows you to reset that.
- donut 11y agoWhat do you mean by corporate cruft?
- wting 11y agoYou become the goto guy / domain expert over enough things that most of your time is spent being interrupted or in meetings instead of building stuff.
- pacaro 11y agoFor example, your review history follows you, after a certain point poor promotion velocity is used to justify not promoting...