Commerce
& Ecosystem
The Commerce & Ecosystem (C+E) team in is dedicated to the success of our customers and partners. Our Commerce teams work to deliver a reliable commerce infrastructure for all Microsoft and partner products. Our Ecosystem teams drive discovery and awareness of Microsoft and our ecosystem of products and services. The C+E teams in Israel directly impact customers worldwide:
Engineering + Ecosystem delivers a multi-cloud management solution allowing customers to monitor & optimize their cloud.
Cloud + AI Azure Customer Growth & Analytics (Azure CGA) provides a comprehensive set of BI services, so that decisions are informed and made through data.
Startup + Partner Experience aims to win the hearts and minds of cloud innovation partners.
Student Developers empowers today’s students to become tomorrow’s developers.
Academia
The Microsoft Israel R&D Center's Israeli Academia Outreach program serves as a bridge between Microsoft and the local academic talent.
It was established in order to enhance collaboration with excelling students and to maintain research relations and collaborations with the best researchers at the forefront of technology.
Academia
program
The Academia program is a partnership with top Israeli academic institutes and offer courses that take place in state-of-the-art study labs that are built and supported by Microsoft. The program also provides seminars, training sessions, and coveted job opportunities to top ranking students through our Students' Excellence Programs.
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Garage
The Garage is a program that drives a culture of innovation at Microsoft. We offer programs and experiences to our employees, customers, and ecosystem that drive collaboration, creativity, and experimentation and deliver business value and impact.
The Garage space is open to every employee with an idea -providing a safe place to take creative liberties, brainstorm, experiment, and do epic things.
Our unique facility includes an open-space collaboration hall for ideating and planning, as well as a maker’s lab with state-of-the-art machinery for hacking and making.
With our partners, ranging from manufacturers, healthcare providers, and municipalities, to educational institutes and NGOs - we aim to promote intrapreneurship within the organization and innovation adoption across the Israeli ecosystem.
VoiceTyping++ was developed as an employee-led project facilitated by The Garage during the 2021 Microsoft Hackathon, with the goal of enabling computer use for people with disabilities, and specifically those with limited utilization of their hands. The main ambition was to develop a new interface that would enable better use of dictation services and editing with a single finger/or gaze control. This innovative voice recognition project was inspired by one particular user, photographer Ronen Akerman, who was struggling with ALS, and has since evolved into a model holding the potential to improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of users.
The Garage is more than an innovation space, here on campus. It’s a community of thousands of Microsoft employees around the globe who share a passion for creating, innovating and hacking. This is a community where you can learn from experimentation and help us apply those learnings to the rest of Microsoft.
- Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO -
Diversity & Inclusion Culture
Microsoft is driven by the belief and recognition that diversity is not only a moral value but also a business necessity. At Microsoft, we have the opportunity – and the obligation – to foster a collective movement towards greater inclusion through our actions. Creating an environment where people can be their authentic selves in alignment with our company values is a commitment built into the work each one of us does every single day, no matter our title, level, or role.
At Microsoft Israel R&D Center (ILDC), the work of diversity and inclusion is about having intention in all we do. We strive to recruit, retain, develop, and invest in talented people that represent a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, skills, and experiences- and we’re proud to share women representation in increasing at all levels.
Gender pay report for 2022
Gender pay report for 2021
The Israeli hi-tech ecosystem is filled with entrepreneurs, engineers, leaders, and innovators who share our vision of promoting D&I. By developing relationships with diverse technological communities and by partnering with stakeholders, we advance the ecosystem around us. Promoting STEM education and encouraging diverse recruitment are just some examples of what we work on for and with the community.
Diversity is Our Power
On a global, national, and local level, we work with and support non-profit organizations that are working to advance diversity and inclusion in the tech industry—and in workplaces worldwide through research, benchmarking, program development and advocacy platforms. We host meetups, workshops, and training seminars aimed at students and developers to promote technological and entrepreneurial discourse and to create networking opportunities.
We believe in the transformative power of engaging many different perspectives and seek to foster a diverse tech community wherever possible. In Israel specifically, we maintain several ongoing projects to tap into minority communities – whether Arab, Ultra-Orthodox, Special Needs, or Women – such as mentoring programs, tech conferences, skills workshops, and buddy candidate programs. Equal representation for the entire population of Israel is our goal.
Together, we can create real change!
