Pay is excellent; people are good
Pay is excellent; people are good
MS pays great. Lots of extras affect the total compensation.
Culture is becoming too developer-centric, in a bad way. Arrogant, prideful personalities can succeed if they are great coders, while collaborative smart people who aren't as skilled with C++ are looked down upon. This leads to disdain towards the non-Dev disciplines and a lack of structured testing and validation of the work.
Keep obsessing about the customer. Focus more on quality – bring back the best of the SDET discipline. Pay attention to reviews from customers saying, "Win10 is great, but awfully buggy."
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Engineering Manager
Mix of soft and tech questions. Quite reasonable. Make sure to relate to specifics that may seem trivial. Should know C/C++/C# or Java. Need to demonstrate decent understanding of networking, the Internet, and Cloud. Asked about my preferences b
Engineering Manager
3 Algo & Data structure questions and 1 design question. The questions needed you to understand patterns more than actual coding. For example, when to buy and sell stocks. The interviewer can advance the question to with or without cool down.
Engineering Manager
Either resumes are filtered by glitchy software or by incompetent and clueless recruiters. I have 20 years of experience managing engineers, but five minutes after applying for the job, I received an email stating I didn’t have enough experience. Wh
Engineering Manager
Redmond, Washington, United StatesMay 1, 2015Mix of soft and tech questions. Quite reasonable. Make sure to relate to specifics that may seem trivial. Should know C/C++/C# or Java. Need to demonstrate decent understanding of networking, the Internet, and Cloud. Asked about my preferences b
Engineering Manager
NairobiNovember 15, 20253 Algo & Data structure questions and 1 design question. The questions needed you to understand patterns more than actual coding. For example, when to buy and sell stocks. The interviewer can advance the question to with or without cool down.
Engineering Manager
Melbourne, AustraliaMarch 28, 2025Either resumes are filtered by glitchy software or by incompetent and clueless recruiters. I have 20 years of experience managing engineers, but five minutes after applying for the job, I received an email stating I didn’t have enough experience. Wh
