{"id":1041,"date":"2017-03-24T12:36:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T19:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2017-03-24T12:38:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T19:38:40","slug":"why-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/why-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Unity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of people, both co-workers and not, have asked me why I “chose” Unity for my post-Microsoft career. Although I documented (sort of) why I broke up with Microsoft<\/a>, and talked in a few<\/a> other<\/a> places<\/a> about my role, I guess I haven’t publicly shared why I’m at Unity (vs any other tech company).<\/p>\n

I had musings about leaving Microsoft for quite a while. In fact, I composed a version of my breakup blog post in my head as far back as 2010 when I\u00a0almost<\/em> took a role at another large tech company. It may be worth sharing that I\u00a0almost<\/em> accepted roles at\u00a0several<\/em> other companies over the years, and halfway pursued several others as well.<\/p>\n

So, why Unity and why not any of those other companies?<\/p>\n

The short answer is that I’m picky, and that Unity is my unicorn.<\/p>\n

I wanted a role that was both challenging and where I could leverage my experience. I wanted to work in services (or, at the very least, in an Agile environment). I didn’t want to move, and I didn’t want to travel\u00a0too<\/em> much. I wanted to work on a product with avid and vocal customers.<\/p>\n

Then along came Unity – a second time, actually, as I first talked with my current manager about Unity over a year ago. The role at the time, wasn’t quite right for my strict requirements, but when we restarted our conversation a few months ago, Unity felt a lot more like a good fit. I met with a few people (all people I now work with almost every day). I liked them, and they liked me. After a few short conversations with HR to get the financial side in order, and after a few longer conversations with my family about the \u00a0move, I accepted the offer.<\/p>\n

As soon as I made the decision, I knew it was the right one. I’ve had zero<\/em> regrets, and\u00a0every day<\/em> I feel better about the move. So much to do, but so excited to do it.<\/p>\n

That’s why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lot of people, both co-workers and not, have asked me why I “chose” Unity for my post-Microsoft career. Although I documented (sort of) why I broke up with Microsoft, and talked in a few other places about my role, I guess I haven’t publicly shared why I’m at Unity (vs any other tech company)….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}