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So expensive? Can you please provide some data / your usage to back you statement?

Nice but would be great if it was free for up to 5 or even 3 users. Startups and individuals like me would love that !

Visual Studio Online - Can't Sort Tasks, Can't Filter ....

Buy a bottle of Bourbon, Chips and a nice movie.

I don't pay for Gmail and its faster. I had free tier of AWS and it was faster. I have i7 PC with 16 GB RAM, 4 MB Cache. That is a general configuration most developers have I suppose.

To blame Microsoft as a company wouldn't be fair I suppose. I hold the Project Managers responsible.

I had a issue where the Azure would just tell me I had no subscription, even though I had one. It asked to selection option if my email was Microsoft account or a company account. My email was [email protected]. So obviously I selected Company account. Later found out I had to select Microsoft account. Not sure why anyone has to select what type of account. Why can't the system determine itself what account it is. It is this kind of stupid stuffs that makes Microsoft look bad.

Get IELTS Exam done - score more than 6.5 on scale of 9

Assess your qualification with NZ authority

Asses your Experience

Check the NZ immigration website to see how many points you have.

Lodge Expression of Interest, wait for response

Once they respond, submit application / pay fees and wait for result

Problem with Coursera / Udemy is they just scratch the surface. Almost all courses are introductory and don't go into depth.

I had the same thought but after closely working and observing what they do on day to day basis, here I have come up with few reasons:

1. They understand the day to day Operations of the company better.

2. Non-IT people find it easier to deal with them.

3. They're easy going, less demanding in terms of the Company culture and technologies used.

4. They tend to stay for long time in the company - that means Loyalty. Most companies appreciate and reward Loyalty.

5. They aren't Incompetent. They are just good at what they do, for long time, which new comers might dispute as being lazy, not passionate about technology.

Lastly, most of the jobs don't require you to be genius.

Playing Cricket !

focused on human values rather than $$$$