Microsoft’s Ilana Smith spoke to SiliconRepublic.com about her career journey from Australia to Seattle and to her current role in Dublin.
Career Close-up is our brand-new video series in partnership with IDA Ireland where we chat to senior employees in some of Ireland’s leading multinationals about their career journeys within Ireland’s dynamic tech and science industries.
In our first episode, we spoke to Microsoft’s Ilana Smith, who arrived in Dublin via Australia and Seattle to take up her current role as security product lead at Microsoft Dublin.
Smith also talked about how Microsoft moved from a ‘know-it-all’ culture to a ‘learn-it-all’ culture.
“Instead of trying to get it right once every three years, we now can be learning constantly from our customers, and we can now be shipping constantly as we learn,” she said.
“So it’s really less important that we make the perfect decision every single time. It is important that each day we’re learning, we’re adjusting. We sort of have permission to get it maybe not perfect that first time but get it close and then learn and iterate as we go along.”
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Words by Jenny Darmody
