本文讲述了产品设计师Antara Dave在被微软拒绝一年后成功入职的经历。她在Home Depot积累了用户体验方面的经验，弥补了微软认为其缺乏的技能。通过在简历中展示相关工作经验，并在面试中展现出设计能力、批判性思维和解决问题的能力，最终获得了微软的职位。文章还强调了熟悉AI工具和Vibe-coding的重要性，为有志于在微软从事设计工作的人提供了宝贵的建议。

👩‍💼 Antara Dave在被微软拒绝一年后，通过积累用户体验方面的经验成功入职，担任高级产品设计师。

💼 Dave在Home Depot工作期间，通过担任UX设计师积累了必要的经验，弥补了微软认为其缺乏的技能。

📝 在面试过程中，Dave展示了设计作品、批判性思维和解决问题的能力，并详细阐述了设计决策过程。

🤖 Dave强调，熟悉AI工具和Vibe-coding对于在微软从事设计工作至关重要。

Antara Dave landed a senior product designer role at Microsoft after getting rejected a year prior.She gained the necessary user experience skills at Home Depot before reapplying to Microsoft.Dave said getting that experience and standing out in the interview helped her land her dream job.

The first time Antara Dave applied for a job at Microsoft, her dream company, she was rejected. But a year later she landed the role after picking up experience the company had said she was missing.

Dave joined Microsoft in 2022 and is now a senior product designer who leads user experience for AI tools. She told Business Insider that when she was rejected from in 2021, she was told she needed more real experience building products that impacted user experience.

Dave, who was working as a data analyst at Home Depot at the time, moved into a role within her company that would get her the experience she needed to land the Microsoft job.

When she cold-applied again in 2022, her new résumé included a year of experience as a UX designer, showing Microsoft she had worked on getting the experience she was missing.

"When I applied again a year later, I did not have any referrals inside the company. I just applied to the Microsoft portal and got a call and went from there," she said.

Once she made it to the interview process, she used the five-hour day to showcase her design work as well as her critical thinking skills and ability to problem solve.

"There was a one-hour interview where I presented my work to a bunch of people on the team, around 20 people. They also asked me questions about my project to understand how I made those design decisions," she said. "They wanted to learn how I approach and think about problems."

Dave said her undergraduate and master's degrees helped her develop the critical thinking skills needed to be a good product designer. She also said the nearly seven years she spent at Home Depot in different roles helped her ultimately land the job at Microsoft.

In addition to having a résumé that shows the impacts of your work and standing out in the interview, Dave said anyone who wants to work as a designer at Microsoft should be very familiar with AI tools and vibe-coding, or using an AI chatbot to produce code.

Here's the résumé she used to get her job at Microsoft:

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