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Great technical roles requiring soft skills

Senior Cloud Solutions Architect
Current Employee
Has worked at Microsoft for 6 years
December 24, 2019
Bogotá, Bogota
5.0
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Pros

Great place to work, with amazing co-workers, both technical and commercial.

Regional managers excel at leadership and motivation.

Technical teams are highly skilled and collaborative. The teams are distributed throughout the region, from Mexico to Chile.

Cons

LATAM is a small part of Microsoft. Opportunities to grow apart from the same role are limited, especially if you're out of Brazil (just Brazil is half of the region).

Not my case, but some technical managers are too much "sales guy" style, which is pretty uncomfortable when you are a technical person. If you're smart, you can iterate to program management roles to move up and then return back to technical roles at higher levels.

Advice to Management

Be open and understand what technical people value most. If you know technical people, you know that many of them used to work very late at night, at lunch, on weekends, etc., just because they like it. Don't schedule forced meetings for early mornings to talk about sales stuff; those meetings are for commercial people.

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