Good for stability and long-term career. Breadth of opportunities
Good for stability and long-term career. Breadth of opportunities
Diversity in product offerings, people, and opinions.
Access to amazing people, but talent appears to be gradually getting diluted.
On-campus shopping, restaurants, banks, etc.
Wonderful sports in spring and summer.
Politics appear to be on the rise.
Competing priorities, duplicative efforts, and lack of coordination across teams. Easy to get lost, and loyalty to people is becoming more important than loyalty to the company.
Watch your employees' backs and make sure their development is your top priority. Too many managers are busy feeding themselves, leaving employees to find creative ways to advance. Employees gravitate towards short-term results and opportunities for visibility. Team priorities emphasize local maxima over global benefit.
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Group Engineering Manager
Behavioral and based on cultural fit. Questions revolved around: * Your ability to cope with failure. * Your ability to learn from mistakes. * Your ability to grow as a technical expert and as a leader and manager.
Software Engineer Intern
Very straightforward, two back-to-back thirty-minute technical interviews that had a combination of LeetCode easy and medium questions, along with some behavioral questions that were sprinkled in there.
Software Engineering Intern
It 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.
Group Engineering Manager
Redmond, Washington, United StatesMay 28, 2024Behavioral and based on cultural fit. Questions revolved around: * Your ability to cope with failure. * Your ability to learn from mistakes. * Your ability to grow as a technical expert and as a leader and manager.
Software Engineer Intern
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 21, 2025Very straightforward, two back-to-back thirty-minute technical interviews that had a combination of LeetCode easy and medium questions, along with some behavioral questions that were sprinkled in there.
Software Engineering Intern
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.
