Think you've seen it all? Think Next!

Think you've seen it all? Think Next!

Out-of-the-Box Week (OOBW)

The Out-of-the-Box Week (OOBW) is an activity, used in some of Microsoft’s labs to foster grassroots innovation and creativity. The Innovation Labs in Israel’s R&D Center holds an Out-of-the-Box Week on a quarterly basis. During an Out-of-the-Box Week, all scheduled lab activities are canceled and team members are encouraged to explore their wildest ideas. OOBW is a totally unmanaged process. People are free to choose their own topics, partners, technologies and tools and develop a fast prototype around their idea. No control. No guidelines. No status reports. In fact there are no rules, but one: at the end of this week all teams gather for an exciting demonstration in front of all Microsoft Israel R&D Center’s employees and guests. Our success criterion is very simple and easy to measure: We must have FUN doing it!

Microsoft Israel R&D center provides more avenues for diversified work than you thought possible.

From security, through telecom, to online services and research, a wide range of challenging possibilities is made available to you once you're onboard. Moreover, you can further your career by evolving between various disciplines - from development to project management, research or labs, for example. When you work at Microsoft, you are open to endless growth potential both within Microsoft Israel R&D center and worldwide through relocation to other Microsoft sites. With so many exciting business activities to explore, there's no fear of outgrowing the spark or interest in your workplace. By way of analogy, look at Microsoft Israel R&D center as one of the world's largest mountain ranges. All of the summits your heart is set on conquering are interconnected. So, whenever you'll want to embark on a new field of interest, you won't have to look far...