I live in a small town and used to work with a guy who was Microsoft Windows phone support at one point before they transferred the role to India. He wasn&#x27;t a programmer. He wasn&#x27;t an admin. He was phone help support as in &quot;I can&#x27;t get teh google to come up when I push the power button... pleaz help!&quot;.<p>He has gotten the best job offers in the area including an interview for head of IT for the entire school district. He doesn&#x27;t even have a college degree. He is good guy and I enjoyed working with him, but at the risk of sounding dismissive I didn&#x27;t observe him to be very motivated nor a top level problem solver nor see that he possessed much high level knowledge.<p>Point being... with people who don&#x27;t know better the word &quot;Microsoft&quot; on a resume is a golden ticket and a guarantee that one is top caliber talent and highly knowledgeable. So there is that in your favor....