Beyond Tech Skills

BTS-035 Herding Angry Wet Cats: Rie Merritt on Microsoft Culture & the Zen of Technology Advocacy


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Does your job sometimes feel like you’re herding cats? You should try it when those same cats are wet and angry. Rie Merritt discusses her experiences as a Sr Program Manager for Microsoft’s MVP technology advocacy program with Jim and Liron, and how Microsoft’s culture of diversity and inclusion penetrates everything they strive to do. We also chat about myriad topics like why saying “Howdy, guys!” to your multi-gender team may not be the best way to greet them, as well as some amazingly embarrassing examples of gender bias in application design.
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Beyond Tech SkillsBy Liron Amitzi, Jim Czuprynski

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