Tom Keane Leads Top Ten Workplace at Microsoft
Software developer Tom Keane was born on the 8th of January in 1952 in Waterford, Ireland and joined Microsoft in 1978. He went on to lead the software development and applications at Microsoft. He is now a Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Microsoft where he is responsible for the engineering design, development, testing and release of Windows 10.”
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Tom Keane’s Top Ten [to use as knowledge, not to be copied verbatim]:
Why do people think working late makes them look good? Does it make their job easier? Or does it give people the impression that they have no life outside of work? In my opinion, the answer is NO. On the contrary, it makes you appear unprofessional. If you need to work late, either because of your own performance or other people’s performance then at least make sure that you’ve set a schedule and stick to it (Twitter).
* Every day is Casual Day
I had one of my managers tell me that she didn’t want to use her money for my clothes. I’m sorry but that’s the dumbest thing I ever heard. The cloud services engineer explains. Tom Keane adds that: It’s called an expense account and it’s literally given to me so that I can look presentable at work every day.
Software developer Tom Keane was born on the 8th of January in 1952 in Waterford, Ireland and joined Microsoft in 1978. He went on to lead the software development and applications at Microsoft. He is now a Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Microsoft where he is responsible for the engineering design, development, testing…