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WorksheetsCareers in Tech: Microsoft Program Manager
Total questions: 7
Worksheet time: 4mins
Frederico is from
Hawaii
Puebla, Mexico
Pharr, Texas
India
Most engineers do things with their hands, but Frederico is an engineer that
flies
does gymnastics
codes
runs around in circles
Federico's experience with getting a job was
that it was easy. He got the first job he applied to.
that he gave up after applying a few places.
he was just given the job because he was a good coder.
that he applied to many companies and got nothing. A year later he applied to Microsoft and didn't get the job. But they saw that he was passionate about coding so they interviewed him a year later. Then he got a job.
What does his work day look like?
He just sits and writes code all day.
Coding is just a piece of it. He works with experts in many areas, including lawyers.
He doesn't do any programming.
He doesn't have meetings with other people during his work day.
"Find something that you are passionate about, like a problem in the world that you think is important,
and just hope it gets better."
then find people that working there and help them."
"Use your skill, use your passion, use your energy to
help solve a problem."
play video games all day."
sit and watch youtube videos."
"Just keep knocking on doors and
no one will let you in."
give up after you have knocked on a few."
eventually one does open."
