Great place to work, a little too focused on individual competition
Great place to work, a little too focused on individual competition
Scope and scale don’t get any better, from Xbox Kinect to Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
They are very community and environmentally focused.
Microsoft is just paranoid enough to keep moving without being so paranoid as to miss their own strengths.
They love measurement and track everything. Since everyone is calibrated, people have a tendency to work on new projects alone, which means there is a lot of duplication and waste. People try and do what is right, but calibration is always a driving force, so people over-communicate to get noticed, while at the same time hiding projects until they are successful or successful enough to claim credit.
Seriously look at incorporating agile project management methodologies.
Continue to be paranoid, but reduce internal competition, or at least gather data so that ideas that hurt one business group but help the company can thrive.
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 20, 2025It was one round, two interviews: one technical and one behavioral. It took about a month to get the interview request and a week to hear back. The behavioral round also had some minimal technical questions.
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 4, 2025I got a referral from the TNT program, which allowed me to skip the phone screen and other interviews. I got to the final round and had back-to-back interviews with a Software Engineer and a Product Manager. Both interviews were mostly behavioral, wi
