Hacking culture comes naturally to Alex Gueniot. As the senior software engineer for PowerPoint driving technical implementation of new features, he just can’t give up on good ideas.
“I compulsively need to create and to collaborate with people. That’s why I’ve been involved in almost 20 hackathon projects in the past seven years. One year, I was on six hackathon teams at once. Good luck getting me to stop multitasking.”
In this mini-documentary, get an inside look into the hack culture of the PowerPoint team as you follow a group of employees while they attempt to turn their ambitious hack idea into reality.
Gueniot shares how hackathons force you to find side routes to arriving at answers, something he has always been interested in.
“Before I started working at Microsoft, I had this idea to do an animated résumé. So, I created a little video called Flash CV, and it ended up going viral—which is strange to me because my singing on the video is very bad. But doing something creative worked for me. I guess I just don’t like to do things in the usual way.”
Read the full story, No idea left behind, on the Microsoft Jobs Blog.
Written by Candace Whitney-Morris, as told by Alex Gueniot
