Microsoft Corp.

(NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella says the best career advice he received during more than three decades at the company was not to treat today's job as a waiting room for tomorrow's promotion.

Nadella Says Do Best Work Now Nadella joined Microsoft as a young engineer in 1992 and became its third CEO in 2014, after Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.

Microsoft says he held leadership roles across enterprise and consumer businesses before taking the top job, building a reputation for spanning technologies and transforming major product lines.

In a 2023 LinkedIn interview with CEO Ryan Roslansky, Nadella said one of the most important lessons he learned at Microsoft was simple.