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Microsoft Software Engineer Says AI Has Made Job Easier, Not Stressful ...
I'm a Gen Z Microsoft engineer. AI doesn't always save me time, but it's still made my job easier. As told to Jacob Zinkula You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Navya Jammalamadaka, 27, says AI tools have changed her role as a software engineer at Microsoft. Navya Jammalamadaka 2026-04-25T09:07:01.291Z Navya Jammalamadaka joined Microsoft in 2024 as a software engineer. She said AI tools have become central to her job and made some tasks easier. The Gen Zer shared her top advice for using AI and breaking into the tech industry. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Navya Jammalamadaka, a 27-year-old software engineer at Microsoft who lives in Redmond, Washington. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I'm still fairly early in my career, but I've seen software engineering roles change a lot.I used to go to work and code for five to six hours a day without the assistance of an AI tool. Now, my job is more like being the architect — guiding AI to write the code while I design the system.At Microsoft, there's definitely been a push to adopt AI. My AI usage picked up around the beginning of last year when a lot of tools were made available internally. I spent the first half of 2025 focused on experimenting with AI and learning what it could do, and the second half of the year incorporating it into my workflows, like using AI to review code.GitHub Copilot has become my go-to tool for coding suggestions and debugging. My work still gets reviewed by a senior engineer, but AI has been really helpful. I broke into Big Tech 2 years agoMy journey to Microsoft began in 2023, when I decided to take a shot at the dream that everybody in my industry seems to have at some point: working in Big Tech.At the time, I was working as a software engineer at a consulting firm in Connecticut. While I was applying for Big Tech roles, the founder of a smaller tech firm reached out about a software engineer position in San Francisco that seemed really cool. I hadn't heard back from most of my Big Tech applications, so I decided to pursue the job. I eventually accepted an offer, moved to San Francisco, and started the role in January 2024.I was generally happy with my role, but I hadn't given up on my Big Tech dream. I began hearing back from several Big Tech applications I'd submitted in prior months — many before I'd started my new job. I moved forward with interviews at Apple, Meta...
Putting AI to work with the building trades - Microsoft On the Issues
We are living through a moment that will be defined not only by advanced technology and AI, but by the real-world infrastructure that makes it possible. And that infrastructure will be built the way critical infrastructure has always been built—by electricians, ironworkers, pipefitters, operating engineers, laborers, and the many other skilled professionals who turn plans into places and progress. In a world that can feel increasingly virtual, there are millions of skilled trade professionals who remind us of a simple truth: what happens next still depends on uniquely human skills and what we can create, build, wire, weld, install, and maintain. At Microsoft, we are honored to partner with North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) to invest in the people who build with us. Today we are announcing an expanded partnership to support a strong, skilled workforce pipeline and help workers across North America build the skills needed to succeed in an AI-powered economy. We believe that the North American skilled trades workforce is one of the most talented workforce systems. This week, thousands of these talented workers from across North America gather in Washington, DC for their annual Legislative Conference, an annual convening that reflects both the enduring strength of the trades and the country’s need for what they do. As part of our Community-First approach to AI infrastructure we committed to investing in the places where we build, in the people who build with us, and in the long-term capacity of local economies. AI is a tool we will use, and I believe it will help in ways we plan and manage work, but it will not replace the experience, judgment, and craft that define the trades. Instead, it can amplify those human skills: helping people work more safely, learning more quickly, and delivering higher-quality outcomes on increasingly complex job sites. Bringing AI literacy to millions of trades professionals Our collaboration with NABTU is built on a simple but powerful idea: the people building the future should also be equipped to thrive in it. Over the past year, we have worked together to bring AI literacy directly into the apprenticeship and training infrastructure that NABTU operates across all 50 states and Canada. More than 1,500 instructors in hands-on training centers nationwide have already participated. That early momentum confirmed that when you meet workers where they are, with content designed for how they actually work, the true benefi...
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Inside Track Blog - How Microsoft does IT
Reclaiming engineering time with AI in Azure DevOps at Microsoft At Microsoft Digital, the company's IT organization, we're reimagining how engineers, product managers, and program managers work. Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO) is our company's end-to-end software development lifecycle (SDLC) solution for planning, coding, testing, and…
