As a case manager for adults with various developmental disabilities, this gives me hope for my clients. Thank you Microsoft for viewing people as as their talents & not disabilities. Thank you for going outside the norm and being willing to provide accommodations. 🙏
@@shad0wfrost Extroverted autistics exist too, you know. Being autistic doesn't mean being shy and isolated, it just means that you have the social skills of a peanut.
I'm also autistic AND INTP with a 5w6 enneagram and a 514 tritype, I like technology and computer stuff but I get easily bored and struggle with learning stuff like coding because I also have ADHD which causes executive dysfunction and trouble focusing, ok sorry for talking too much I'm just annoying ok!!
Thanks MS! This gives me hope for my daughter in the future! I cried the day I found out she had autism, I thought she would be relegated to useless jobs that have no meaning. She is smart and creative and this will give her something to shoot for !
I'm 64 years old. When I started as a programmer in the mid 1980's no one was talking about autism or Asperger's at least as far as I knew. Back then at least the places I worked I'm pretty sure almost all programmers were on spectrum or very close. Me watching this video and these autistic engineers I'm thinking they sound and look like most engineers I worked with. I'd kind of like to see an NT engineer interviewed. There were different types of engineer however. Those at IBM and huge business projects were NT types. I worked in startups creating consumer products. Seems like autistic people were just better at thinking out of the box and understanding what types of products NT people like.
Meanwhile in reality most autistics are living in their mothers basements at 40 and then end up dead by suicide or on the street. Your survivorship bias is very obvious.
Thank you for this program Microsoft! I'm an aspie that recently graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Visual and Game Programming. I will be sending resume/CV in the morning looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Companies out there need to invest into these amazing people. They could be the key to solving the worlds toughest challenges a untapped market. But with that said dont take advantage of them and pay them a solid wage and living conditions for their services. My son has Autism and the fact that there are some companies out there who want to give the Autistic community a chance. It speaks so much for the people who are sadly overlooked for people who just have egos.
Some days I wake up and all I can think about is ASD. I see so many people impacted by ASD. I wonder what will happen when children with ASD are no longer eligible for services. How do we ensure these kids have the same opportunities as everyone else? We need more companies to think like this.
I love Microsoft and how it has helped me a lot cannot say thankyou enough to Microsoft please keep going with hiring people wit special educational needs. Thankyou
What I'm not liking about all the info available, is that there is no info on what education level is expected? A lot of ASD ppl do not make it thru college or into a Bachelors degree. Can ASD people who have some education/experience in programming (Associates Degree) apply too? Or is it just post baccalaureate?
Question: Is the alternative hiring process being used by the Autism Hiring Program helping people within the autism community outside of Computer Science majors? Because I would love to learn more about the program, and how I can get my foot in the door as a Business Administration major. I had an interview at Microsoft a few months ago, but it didn't use the alternative hiring process mentioned in this video which would have helped a lot. I was also interested in attending local hiring events, but they were limited to Computer Science majors. Hopefully, diversity and inclusion of all majors is a priority because we are all interested in opportunities at Microsoft. I would love the opportunity to lead diversity and inclusion programs one day.
Doubt it, very much so - companies don't care for people with autism, based on anything I observed during my own job interviews. Good for Microsoft for trying something different, but I doubt this will go anywhere.
Reflecting the makeup of our workforce, most of these have been engineering positions, but we've have people through the program in a number disciplines, including finance, legal and content publishing. And it has been a great success so far!
@@IHeartNoise my interactions with their more public facing (FOSS) projects, as well as some of their project managers on Twitter, have shown, at least to me, that their staff is remarkably unaware of what autism is and how interaction styles differ. It's been very high friction interactions. Find a project that respect your surface value "matter of fact" and either too short or ranty proposals, who says "go for it" and just simply checks your Pull Requests for quality. That's far more catering to autism than "social points" systems like Microsoft seems to be doing here.
This is just a meaningless marketing material. You need to answer what the autistic people who’s looking for a job really want to know, because we are not disabled, we just need a environment that suits us. You are hiring us, not doing a charity to us! This is still a mutual selection like any other hiring processing you do with a NT person. You gotta answer the key questions during a hiring process. For example: 1. What is the hiring process like? Do people still need to practice LeetCode thingy? Is it going to be solving a problem? Or what? Why is it different and better? 2. Are there ND women in the group? I didn’t see they were represented in the video. I’m also on the spectrum but I’m very different than the people in the video, which is very common for female ND group. I find most Autism hiring campaigns very stereotype, they always choose some typical asperger boys who likes board games and talk super fast with monotones, and I am a bit worried that they will misrepresent a lot of people on the spectrum. And if people like me send my CV, will we be screened out because we “don’t look autistic”? 3. What exactly did you change in the office to make the autistic employees bring out more potentials? For example, what did you change in the management style? What changes did you make to lessen the frustrations in autistic people at work? We have some problems at work and communication. It doesn’t mean that if you provide a quite dark room it will solve everything. You still need to do something to help us bring our our real potential. Just hiring NDs is not the end. How do you help them to reach their full potential is even more important. Why do I want to join you? Still, like I said, this is hiring, it’s mutual selection, not a charity. You need to sell us yourself too.
I don't understand how this is supposed to work well, when you have this program but don't address concerns actual autistic people have about the program, even if that's just answering a few questions. If it's not the people with autism you're listening to, who is deciding how the program works? Why, the more I look into this, the more ulterior motives I see?
Can’t find a job for my son doesn’t get callbacks has only gone to two interviews. No callbacks here where we live there are no autistic centers. He was diagnosed at 16 graduated at 18 have no services for him very hard. I’m scared for him that he will not find employment. Many of these people that are homeless. A lot of them have mental issues because I’m non-medication no one to, start them off and get them going with medication. Maybe they could get productive and not being homeless drinking doing drugs it’s a very big problem I’m scared for him.
Expand beyond Software Engineering roles. Neurodiverse people are more than just programmers; they have skills other than programming. The MSFT Neurodiversity Hiring Program is ironically not inclusive.
I appreciate you looking at our positive qualities, but no. No you don't. And frankly, while I don't believe in the slightest you intended to do so, you've quite frankly insulted a lot of people by doing that. Talking only about the positive aspects to the point you put on an air of legitimate _jealousy_ while talking about a disability that affects our lives in numerous very real and negative ways is... absurd. You don't wish you were "autistic", you wish you were Rain Man, and here's the thing - we fucking hate Rain Man. It's an utterly unrealistic portrayal of autism that creates an absurd, idealized, impossible-to-reach expectation, which both society and we ourselves look down upon anyone who fails to live up to it.
We need more companies to hire more Autistic people. Companies like Sony and other big companies should be looking in to this. I am happy that Microsoft has decided to hire Autistic people!
do they still have this program? I attempted to send an email to the address listed at the end of the video, but indicates this email address no longer exists. May you please update the email contact information please?
I don't believe in hiring people based on quotas or charity. But it is sad if someone cannot get a job because they have a personality trait that does NOT impact their job, but they are discriminated against for it. Crying does not make a woman illogical. 2 + 2 is still 4
Just because some aspects of my autism make me especially well-suited for certain tasks (meticulousness, detail-orientation, perfectionism, etc) doesn't mean it isn't a disability. Further, it's not just about having people with skills - it's also having that perspective. Diversity isn't just about numbers, it's about perspective and side-stepping the privilege that many people bring without even knowing it to the table.
Not really sir.. i am an asd but also ocd.. so although i am a good problem solver...very people oriented environments like Microsoft will never work for me..
For me it is, I have a very crappy social skills and poor motor skills which makes me very clumsy and the last one picked in a sport team in PE class. I also struggle with focusing, executive dysfunction and ADHD and maladaptive daydreaming which makes my grades bad and I'll probably never gonna get any job because of this and I'll end up taking my own life.
The autistic kid has a future provided that the autistic kid doesn't has a person in their live to teach them that to be social and get people to like you is to insult them.
@@lecongquyen4105 yes you are right.thank you for pointing it out.no point running behind a company that has a certain bias towards non whites on the autism spectrum..
I think, that -something(s); such as/like this: should be done; in/across_ Africa. 1 of me many -dream's; is to: "support/help_ "Africa's: Autistics and Dyslexics/Dyspraxics, HYPER-lexics and A.D.H.D.ers!!"!!"-M.K.S.
As a father of an autistic and bright child and as an atypical individual myself, I really love to see this. Thanks, Microsoft.
As a case manager for adults with various developmental disabilities, this gives me hope for my clients. Thank you Microsoft for viewing people as as their talents & not disabilities. Thank you for going outside the norm and being willing to provide accommodations. 🙏
My son will be working for you someday! He has been one of your company's biggest fans since 5th grade!
Autistic people shape the world trust me
If we didnt have autistic people
We would all be socialzing instead of being productive !
@@shad0wfrost Extroverted autistics exist too, you know. Being autistic doesn't mean being shy and isolated, it just means that you have the social skills of a peanut.
@@hikari27506 yea and it’s not just social skills so it’s pretty bad
I have autism and the INTP-A personality type, I am good with technology and computers but not great when it comes to social interactions.
XaK Same here man. I also have Autism, and I’m not ashamed of it.
In the future we don't need interact with people in work
I'm INTP-T
I'm also autistic AND INTP with a 5w6 enneagram and a 514 tritype, I like technology and computer stuff but I get easily bored and struggle with learning stuff like coding because I also have ADHD which causes executive dysfunction and trouble focusing, ok sorry for talking too much I'm just annoying ok!!
Also my social skills are worse than shit XD
Me too and I am a lady. I am starting a Mobile and Web developmemt project. I am sort of a cross between INTJ and INTP.
Thanks MS! This gives me hope for my daughter in the future! I cried the day I found out she had autism, I thought she would be relegated to useless jobs that have no meaning. She is smart and creative and this will give her something to shoot for !
Fast food can have meaning.
Yup, all jobs have meaning
if you cried finding out your daughter had autism and think she would get useless jobs, then YOU'RE DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm 64 years old. When I started as a programmer in the mid 1980's no one was talking about autism or Asperger's at least as far as I knew. Back then at least the places I worked I'm pretty sure almost all programmers were on spectrum or very close. Me watching this video and these autistic engineers I'm thinking they sound and look like most engineers I worked with. I'd kind of like to see an NT engineer interviewed.
There were different types of engineer however. Those at IBM and huge business projects were NT types. I worked in startups creating consumer products. Seems like autistic people were just better at thinking out of the box and understanding what types of products NT people like.
NT type?
@@Andre-jp4yt neurotypical
Meanwhile in reality most autistics are living in their mothers basements at 40 and then end up dead by suicide or on the street. Your survivorship bias is very obvious.
Very proud of our company. This is what gets me up in the morning.
Thank you for this program Microsoft! I'm an aspie that recently graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Visual and Game Programming. I will be sending resume/CV in the morning looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Cant wait to see you do something amazing !
So what happened with your application?
It's been 5 years. Did you get hired?
I am watching this video again.
I am crying my eyes out.
Loved your concept Microsoft....
One day I'll be their working with you...🙂🙂
Companies out there need to invest into these amazing people. They could be the key to solving the worlds toughest challenges a untapped market. But with that said dont take advantage of them and pay them a solid wage and living conditions for their services.
My son has Autism and the fact that there are some companies out there who want to give the Autistic community a chance. It speaks so much for the people who are sadly overlooked for people who just have egos.
Some days I wake up and all I can think about is ASD. I see so many people impacted by ASD. I wonder what will happen when children with ASD are no longer eligible for services. How do we ensure these kids have the same opportunities as everyone else? We need more companies to think like this.
I’m 13 now and I’m good at programming and I want to create artificial intelligence and I have autism so i want to work for Microsoft
If you can learn C++ at your age you can get really far kid, don't ever give up. It will give you a lot of opportunities.
im also 13 and i also have autism
If Microsoft is reading this,
It may be a pipe dream.
I want to work for Microsoft.
I love Microsoft and how it has helped me a lot cannot say thankyou enough to Microsoft please keep going with hiring people wit special educational needs. Thankyou
i wish this happened in the UK, i'd love to work for Microsoft
It was great to hear from the workers.
What I'm not liking about all the info available, is that there is no info on what education level is expected? A lot of ASD ppl do not make it thru college or into a Bachelors degree. Can ASD people who have some education/experience in programming (Associates Degree) apply too? Or is it just post baccalaureate?
I love Microsoft.
Question: Is the alternative hiring process being used by the Autism Hiring Program helping people within the autism community outside of Computer Science majors? Because I would love to learn more about the program, and how I can get my foot in the door as a Business Administration major.
I had an interview at Microsoft a few months ago, but it didn't use the alternative hiring process mentioned in this video which would have helped a lot. I was also interested in attending local hiring events, but they were limited to Computer Science majors. Hopefully, diversity and inclusion of all majors is a priority because we are all interested in opportunities at Microsoft. I would love the opportunity to lead diversity and inclusion programs one day.
Doubt it, very much so - companies don't care for people with autism, based on anything I observed during my own job interviews.
Good for Microsoft for trying something different, but I doubt this will go anywhere.
Reflecting the makeup of our workforce, most of these have been engineering positions, but we've have people through the program in a number disciplines, including finance, legal and content publishing. And it has been a great success so far!
@@IHeartNoise my interactions with their more public facing (FOSS) projects, as well as some of their project managers on Twitter, have shown, at least to me, that their staff is remarkably unaware of what autism is and how interaction styles differ. It's been very high friction interactions.
Find a project that respect your surface value "matter of fact" and either too short or ranty proposals, who says "go for it" and just simply checks your Pull Requests for quality. That's far more catering to autism than "social points" systems like Microsoft seems to be doing here.
finance etc, called neurodiversity hiring program
This is just a meaningless marketing material. You need to answer what the autistic people who’s looking for a job really want to know, because we are not disabled, we just need a environment that suits us. You are hiring us, not doing a charity to us! This is still a mutual selection like any other hiring processing you do with a NT person. You gotta answer the key questions during a hiring process. For example:
1. What is the hiring process like? Do people still need to practice LeetCode thingy? Is it going to be solving a problem? Or what? Why is it different and better?
2. Are there ND women in the group? I didn’t see they were represented in the video. I’m also on the spectrum but I’m very different than the people in the video, which is very common for female ND group. I find most Autism hiring campaigns very stereotype, they always choose some typical asperger boys who likes board games and talk super fast with monotones, and I am a bit worried that they will misrepresent a lot of people on the spectrum. And if people like me send my CV, will we be screened out because we “don’t look autistic”?
3. What exactly did you change in the office to make the autistic employees bring out more potentials? For example, what did you change in the management style? What changes did you make to lessen the frustrations in autistic people at work? We have some problems at work and communication. It doesn’t mean that if you provide a quite dark room it will solve everything. You still need to do something to help us bring our our real potential. Just hiring NDs is not the end. How do you help them to reach their full potential is even more important. Why do I want to join you? Still, like I said, this is hiring, it’s mutual selection, not a charity. You need to sell us yourself too.
2:49 Catan is an adorable and fun board game everyone should play
Hope! Thank you Microsoft.
Very Nice!!!!!! :)
Good work Microsoft! Thank you for helping people like me.
I have ADHD. Are you looking to hire anyone with ADHD? I sent my resume in, but I know it's not the same as autism.
I don't understand how this is supposed to work well, when you have this program but don't address concerns actual autistic people have about the program, even if that's just answering a few questions. If it's not the people with autism you're listening to, who is deciding how the program works? Why, the more I look into this, the more ulterior motives I see?
Can’t find a job for my son doesn’t get callbacks has only gone to two interviews. No callbacks here where we live there are no autistic centers. He was diagnosed at 16 graduated at 18 have no services for him very hard. I’m scared for him that he will not find employment. Many of these people that are homeless. A lot of them have mental issues because I’m non-medication no one to, start them off and get them going with medication. Maybe they could get productive and not being homeless drinking doing drugs it’s a very big problem I’m scared for him.
Expand beyond Software Engineering roles. Neurodiverse people are more than just programmers; they have skills other than programming. The MSFT Neurodiversity Hiring Program is ironically not inclusive.
I wish I had autism for the clarity in thought and mindfulness of one self
I appreciate you looking at our positive qualities, but no. No you don't. And frankly, while I don't believe in the slightest you intended to do so, you've quite frankly insulted a lot of people by doing that. Talking only about the positive aspects to the point you put on an air of legitimate _jealousy_ while talking about a disability that affects our lives in numerous very real and negative ways is... absurd. You don't wish you were "autistic", you wish you were Rain Man, and here's the thing - we fucking hate Rain Man. It's an utterly unrealistic portrayal of autism that creates an absurd, idealized, impossible-to-reach expectation, which both society and we ourselves look down upon anyone who fails to live up to it.
Thats the most ignorant shit i have ever heard.
and misunderstanding of arrogant people around you.
I suspect I may be on the autism spectrum and my delusion was a way of coping with my failures.
More companies should think this way. 🤓
I don't have autism but good work Microsoft!
i suspect i will be applying for this in a few years
Thank you Microsoft
We need more companies to hire more Autistic people. Companies like Sony and other big companies should be looking in to this. I am happy that Microsoft has decided to hire Autistic people!
clueless sheeple is clueless.
So you’re telling me there IS a chance I can work at Microsoft!
Autism isnt a disability, it is just a diversity.., get this right microsoft.
do they still have this program? I attempted to send an email to the address listed at the end of the video, but indicates this email address no longer exists. May you please update the email contact information please?
I don't believe in hiring people based on quotas or charity.
But it is sad if someone cannot get a job because they have a personality trait that does NOT impact their job, but they are discriminated against for it.
Crying does not make a woman illogical. 2 + 2 is still 4
Nicely done!
WOW - Wonderful Outstanding Worthy
Can I say Love??? a million times over!
Thank you
How can I found out more information
Microsoft won't hire me cause I'm cixelsid
They are very intelligent
Most of the time I get made-up feedback, which is not related to skills. (because I'm autistic).
Can you hire me for that.Since I'm autism and I'm also a Windows 10 users
Poor execution here. Calling an ASD a disability in the tech world is like calling and adrenaline addict a poor candidate for the X-Games.
Just because some aspects of my autism make me especially well-suited for certain tasks (meticulousness, detail-orientation, perfectionism, etc) doesn't mean it isn't a disability. Further, it's not just about having people with skills - it's also having that perspective. Diversity isn't just about numbers, it's about perspective and side-stepping the privilege that many people bring without even knowing it to the table.
Not really sir.. i am an asd but also ocd.. so although i am a good problem solver...very people oriented environments like Microsoft will never work for me..
For me it is, I have a very crappy social skills and poor motor skills which makes me very clumsy and the last one picked in a sport team in PE class. I also struggle with focusing, executive dysfunction and ADHD and maladaptive daydreaming which makes my grades bad and I'll probably never gonna get any job because of this and I'll end up taking my own life.
The autistic kid has a future provided that the autistic kid doesn't has a person in their live to teach them that to be social and get people to like you is to insult them.
how to apply for this program ?
meet But there are many better programs.
www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/cross-disability/hiring.aspx
@@lecongquyen4105 yes you are right.thank you for pointing it out.no point running behind a company that has a certain bias towards non whites on the autism spectrum..
meetings lmao
nice job
I think, that -something(s); such as/like this: should be done; in/across_ Africa.
1 of me many -dream's;
is to: "support/help_ "Africa's: Autistics and Dyslexics/Dyspraxics, HYPER-lexics and A.D.H.D.ers!!"!!"-M.K.S.
Because Bill gates has too they are perfectionist most of them than normal people that is there talents
Unless they are white or asian. @
so, still only hiring ppl with high output?
I would rather work at McDonald's then have a "charity" job however.
I rather not work in a stereotypical job “made” for people with autism and just work as a nail artist
autism isnt disability dear lady
neurological damage from vaccine injuries is most definitely a disability.
Well, they probably need janitor’s assistants too...
Suddenly understand why Microsoft has terrible design and support