Principal Service Engineering Manager
Principal Service Engineering Manager
Broad, global, and diverse job growth and opportunities.
Amazing and engaging technologies to advance and work on.
Strong peers, managers, and coaching to grow, especially in early career.
Great advancement opportunities.
Satya's evolving culture is improving the overall company employee experience.
The review model continues to pit people against one another. Regardless of the HR rhetoric, there continues to be a forced distribution of rewards/impact. There is a fixed pool of dollars that can be distributed. The lower side of the rewards scale is linear, and the upper rewards side of the scale is exponential.
Therefore, to give one person high rewards, it requires putting two to three people in the lower rewards section. This is enforced at level bands.
Getting a single zero reward review will end most careers, so it affects how people take risks, help others, etc.
There are still management layers stuck in old behaviors that the culture is trying to dispel. It's slow going.
Be transparent about the review model and stop the rhetoric.
It doesn't fool anyone, and it's disingenuous.
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Principal Service Engineering Manager
It was a typical MS interview process. Though I knew the hiring manager, I was probably a bit more relaxed than some. I had six one-hour interviews over the course of one day, mostly focused on team leadership and operational excellence. My past ex
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.
Principal Service Engineering Manager
United StatesOctober 5, 2014It was a typical MS interview process. Though I knew the hiring manager, I was probably a bit more relaxed than some. I had six one-hour interviews over the course of one day, mostly focused on team leadership and operational excellence. My past ex
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.
