Engineering guide
Meet April. She manages an engineering team creating a cutting-edge app. To be productive and save time, she and her team use Microsoft Search and Office 365 all day long.
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8:30 AM
In the elevator, April searches “my meetings” to see her calendar. Up first is a 9 AM interview with Ying Li.
8:45 AM
She searches HR’s SharePoint for Ying’s resume and finds the link. A quick read through refreshes her memory.
10:00 AM
It went well! April recaps their discussion and shares her feedback with the other interviewers on Teams.
10:30 AM
An employee needs info from sales. April searches for the VP of Sales and quickly finds a contact in his org.
12:45 PM
The monthly metrics review is Monday. She searches for “Dev Power BI dashboard” and dives in to the numbers.
1:30 PM
April needs to move a meeting with one of her directs. She looks Chris up on Bing to see when he’s free.
2:15 PM
The interviews are going well. A quick web search for “Ying Li” shows her GitHub check-ins. They look great.
3:00 PM
April’s late for a meeting. She pulls up a floor plan for “conf room 9025” on her phone so she knows exactly where to go.
4:15 PM
She searches for ‘conversations about Ying’ to scan everyone’s feedback, then joins a Teams meeting to discuss.
5:00 PM
Everyone agrees: Ying is a hire. April sends off an email to HR asking them to extend an offer. Woohoo!
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