Back in 2015, I was working as an RSDE in Microsoft Research. I was a Principal Engineer, and the technical lead for LUIS, a natural language understanding service we were getting ready to launch at //build. Then a re-org happened as a result of one of our directors leaving. My manager was asked to take that role and he needed a development manager for the 7 engineers under … [Read more...] about Becoming a software engineering manager
Archives for October 2017
Changing jobs and programming interviews
Last year I decided it was time to try something new. After 16 years at Microsoft I found myself wanting to get new experiences and challenges. This meant going through programming interviews again. This was actually pretty scary. After all, I joined Microsoft out of college so I had only gone through a full interview process once. What if I lucked out the first time? Would I … [Read more...] about Changing jobs and programming interviews