Still some good people around, drawn in by the brand.
Work-life balance is very achievable — as long as you don’t care about growth in the “work” part.
Pay is decent, benefits quite good (not MSFT benefits though).
It’s full bore ahead on MSFT mediocrity in engineering leadership (both technical and people management) now. Bad ideas, poor execution, and unbelievable arrogance.
Product is an insane mess, and the lack of competence and leadership spills over onto engineering.
Absolutely no interest in hiring or retaining diverse teams.
Attrition is through the roof.
Entire leadership team has turned over in the past 3 months.
This isn’t the GitHub you’re looking for.
I had applied for the Sr. Software Engineer position via their careers page. Although I had received rejections many times, this time I received an email inviting me to take a coding assessment. ## Coding Assignment Round They asked for my programm
The interview process was terrible. I had to keep chasing recruiters to confirm interview dates, wasting almost three months. Once, I got the interview time confirmed only two hours before the tentative schedule. I guess they had someone else in th
There was no formal interview process through an internal transfer from MSFT. This was not a typical interview process since it occurred during a re-organization, and interview processes may differ from one organization to another.
I had applied for the Sr. Software Engineer position via their careers page. Although I had received rejections many times, this time I received an email inviting me to take a coding assessment. ## Coding Assignment Round They asked for my programm
The interview process was terrible. I had to keep chasing recruiters to confirm interview dates, wasting almost three months. Once, I got the interview time confirmed only two hours before the tentative schedule. I guess they had someone else in th
There was no formal interview process through an internal transfer from MSFT. This was not a typical interview process since it occurred during a re-organization, and interview processes may differ from one organization to another.