What does a typical Microsoft or IBM employee do?

[Tomek20225]

Hi, guys!
I'm having a really hard time picking my high school and learning course. One great technical school offers Microsoft and Cisco certificates. These are usually enough to work at, for instance, IBM and Microsoft (you don't need to prove me wrong here).
That's why I need to ask: what does a typical Microsoft, IBM or else employee actually do? I mean the most basic one. These are huge companies and I have literally no clue what those individuals may work on, that's why I'm asking you. Do they earn much?

Thanks in advance!
Thomas

[Oshino Shinobu]

There's literally hundreds of positions you could have for those companies. With a Cisco certification, you'd likely be doing network technician work, which could involve installing, maintaining and repairing various network elements for the company. (if your postilion is directly related to your certification, that is.)

 

Positions in them can range from sales to PR to HR to engineering to networking to receptionist. There isn't really a "typical" employee. 

[LogicalDrm]

Probably works for customer support or sales. IBM has sifted majority of its thing to servers so maybe technical support on server side. Repairs would have been big thing in past, but now Lenovo has their business desktop/laptop thing. Microsoft does have software developers but they have also been outsourcing those. Cue Barnacules rant.

[AlTech]

On ‎5‎/‎21‎/‎2016 at 0:04 AM, LoGiCalDrm said:

Probably works for customer support or sales. IBM has sifted majority of its thing to servers so maybe technical support on server side. Repairs would have been big thing in past, but now Lenovo has their business desktop/laptop thing. Microsoft does have software developers but they have also been outsourcing those. Cue Barnacules rant.

They only removed Barnacules and his department because they became redundant. They tested parts of the .NET framework to identify issues with it. It was a department called "Test".

[The_Denks]

On ‎5‎/‎21‎/‎2016 at 6:56 AM, Tomek20225 said:

Hi, guys!
I'm having a really hard time picking my high school and learning course. One great technical school offers Microsoft and Cisco certificates. These are usually enough to work at, for instance, IBM and Microsoft (you don't need to prove me wrong here).
That's why I need to ask: what does a typical Microsoft, IBM or else employee actually do? I mean the most basic one. These are huge companies and I have literally no clue what those individuals may work on, that's why I'm asking you. Do they earn much?

Thanks in advance!
Thomas

My dad works at MS R&D, highly classified stuff down there, so I cant tell you exactly, but man, are the employee benefits huge.

 

Some of them include:

Free:

Private healthcare

Public transportation

Microsoft shuttles to campus

Campus facilities

A ton of other stuff I cant think of at 10pm

 

Discount:

Microsoft store merchandise (Windows 10 Pro for $25)(Xbox One for $100)

Food and Drink everywhere in King County

A ton of other stuff I cant think of at 10pm

 

Also, stuff just like campus and work environment

 

[LogicalDrm]

57 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

They only removed Barnacules and his department because they became redundant. They tested parts of the .NET framework to identify issues with it. It was a department called "Test".

Thats what I said. Outsourcing. Like now general public does the testing. Same way as phone support for many companies has been moved from original home to India.