What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better at Microsoft?
20 Answers from Employees at Microsoft
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Top Employee Response
Senior Engineers at CSS treat the more "junior" (note quotes) Eng like "kids" or just "dumb". With time you find out that they are not "gods
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Close the usability gap between Windows and Mac OS, and design a mobile device that all consumers can use every day, not just situationally.
- 3Helpful
Always do what you say you will do. Don't be thin skinned. Treat others how you would like to be treated.
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Microsoft build a lot of tools and technologies, but the world is much bigger. Broaden your horizon, learn other technologies and their use
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Trust. Always, everyone thinks they're smarter at everyone else's job, has an opinion, and is more focused on criticizing than anything else
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Learn collaboration and stop trying to sound smarter than everyone else in the room by parroting what you heard last. Question.
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Everyone out for themselves, and stabbing others in the back the first chance to get ahead. NOT HEALTHY.
- 3Helpful
Everyone is a silo, our specific org breeds a culture of protectiveness above all else.
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On the whole, very smart people and good to work with.
- 2Helpful
Listen and be interested in others idea's and insights.
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Follow better team practices - standups; pair programming etc
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Shorted more focused meetings, less taking customer for granted
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Cross-function collaboration is terrible.
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Out for themselves!
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Great team
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Stop gossiping
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Be succinct
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Poor coworkers
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Talented
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