Comment by yread

6 years ago

How come there are so many Slovak and Czech people working on .NET Core at MS? Tomas Petricek, Karel Zikmund, Jan Kotas, Jan Vorlicek, Tomas Matousek,...

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MStrehovsky  6 years ago

(Author of the "C# on Windows 3.11" hack here - and a Slovak.)

I would say the concentration of Czech/Slovak people around .NET at MS is a result of accidents and networking. I got into the team thanks to a friend of a friend who heard I was interested. But yeah, it's a surprising number given the size of the population of Slovakia and Czech republic.

There's a newly opened .NET development center in Prague so the number is likely going to grow (they do hire from all over the world though): https://karelz.github.io/hiring_prague_net/.

flamtap  6 years ago

Could be as simple as a networking thing. Czech/Slovak people know Czech/Slovak people, those people get recommended, etc.

JoeMayoBot  6 years ago

Great minds - Microsoft is an increasingly diverse company and you'll see smart people from everywhere in the world there.

  • DaiPlusPlus  6 years ago

    Aye. My team in DevDiv (home of .NET) had a Brit (me), a Turkish lady, two Russians, two Canadians (one French), three Indians, my lead was Mexican, and only 1 American.