If this is really true. It explains why Microsoft's products is so crappy. They don't hire software engineers who can code well; they hire people who call bulls*** aka have good people skill. Seriously you need outstanding coders some time who are just nerds who are just exceptionally outstanding coders to code. Who cares if he/she can't get along with the others? Dr. House is an a$$hole and he couldn't get along with anybody; he still saved all the lives. Imagine if he's a a "people" person like Dr. Cuddy or Dr. Wilson...
Follow one's passion is the most important. Who cares if it's a sausage fest/boys club? Every single profession out there is a sausage fest/boys club except professions where women are the dominant ones then it's a snake pit/bit**** den, even worse. And honestly the guys in IT/high tech are the nicest. As long as you are good at what you are doing and are easy-going, you pretty much get the respect and many times guys even welcome the addition of girls to their teams. Wait until you try some other professions like manufacturing or mining... As long as the pay puts food on the table at the end of the day and pays for the mortgage that puts a roof over your head, it's good enough. It doesn't bring you happiness but working via doing something that you are passionate about does.
Working in Tech is only worth it for the money. You would hate if you only earned enough to pay your bills. As i once had to do that in a recession. But it proved to me that i only enjoy it for the money. When paid well you can just ignore the tedious stuff and laugh that they are paying you so much to do this mundane stuff. But it is not so funny when you aren't getting paid well. It is rarely like coding your pet projects which is always fun. Being a developer on corporate software is rarely fun. You can get lucky sometimes for a while and get a good project. But it is not the norm.
I can only assume Microsoft has big projects that require the cooperative inputs of a lot of people. As seen with my friend, being competent and nice don’t have to be mutually exclusive. As a side note, a former programmer, “TechLead”, has his own YouTube channel with some humorous videos where he uses sarcasm well to highlight the various issues in the field: The above is one of many good videos.
Guy is relatively famous, I'm saying that because I recognize his face (haven't Googled for it or so). If my memory serves, he worked at Google then quit and tried making money with trading, lost some $300k or so.
As well as losing 300K+ day trading. He also got fired from Facebook and his wife left him and took his son.
Quite a romanced life ( romanced as in "a long fictitious tale of heroes and extraordinary or mysterious events, usually set in a distant time or place" and not as in "a love affair" - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/romanced ).
Why would such questions be designed to deter Jews and undesirables from getting a pass grade? I saw some of the questions, and they look like normal questions where anyone might or might not find them easy or difficult to solve. What makes those questions specifically tough to Jews or other ethnic groups than others?
"While I studied abroad in Kyrgyzstan and traveled through former Soviet Republics and Russia, the topic of Jews came up with regularity in conversations with people across generations and ethnicities. People often ask me if I am Jewish both at home and abroad. People say that I just “look Jewish” whatever that means. The difference is that in the former Soviet Republics the people inquiring would not try to hide their relief when I informed them that I am in fact not Jewish." The general procedure for admission to a Soviet university consisted of a written and oral test. The concept of an oral exam is unfamiliar here in America, but it is a mainstay in the Russian education system. Students walk into the room and take a piece of paper from a pile at the front of the classroom. This piece of paper has two questions on it and is called the bilyet or ticket. The students are given some time to prepare their answers with only paper and pencil. When a student has an answer, they raise their had and an examiner comes by to check the solutions. Then the examiner asks one follow up question, evaluates the solutions, and dismisses the student These exams, however, were different for a Jewish student. The oral exam could last as long as five and a half hours in one case (Kanevskii, 1980). Students were given follow up problems one after another until they failed one of them, at which point there were given a failing grade. Sometimes they were dismissed on a minute technicality. There is an account of one student being asked by the examiner ”What is the definition of a circle?” The student’s answer was ”It is the set of points in a plane, equidistant from a fixed point” The student was informed that this was an incorrect answer, the correct answer is "the set of all points in a plane, equidistant from a fixed point" and the student failed the test (Saul, 1999). Now this is only one example, but there are many stories of similar instances of ridiculous, often times pedantic reasons for dismissal. These stories began to accumulate, and it became blatantly obvious that an effort was being made to make it difficult for some students in particular. Predominately it was Jewish students who received this inhumane treatment. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1320&context=tme