Good Benefits, Tough System
Good Benefits, Tough System
- Large pool of technical resources to learn and consult.
- Decent compensation, especially after being with the company more than 5 years.
- Great benefits and a good, supportive environment for internal transfers.
- The performance review and calibration model caused a side effect of 'promoting' working in silos and against each other, since someone in an organization must be rated excellent and someone must be rated bad.
- The company is getting a bit too big, which is a side effect of losing agility and higher management lacking knowledge of team members. This resulted in potentially unfair/unjustified employee ratings.
- Becoming too big led to a 'diminishing returns' operating model.
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Principal Software Development Engineer
It is tough but smooth overall. It takes a couple of hours to finish. At the end, I am really exhausted to answer any more questions. It is tough but smooth overall. It takes a couple of hours to finish. At the end, I am really exhausted to answer an
Principal Software Development Engineer
Applied online and got a call from HR (who was pretty professional and nice) and was scheduled for an interview in 2 days. I immediately had a feeling that the interviewer was absolutely not interested in either conducting the interview or had alrea
Principal Software Development Engineer
I submitted my resume through the Microsoft website. A recruiter called me after 2-3 weeks. It was an hour-long interview. We spoke about my resume and skillset. I never heard back. I emailed the recruiter after a week, but was ignored.
Principal Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2017It is tough but smooth overall. It takes a couple of hours to finish. At the end, I am really exhausted to answer any more questions. It is tough but smooth overall. It takes a couple of hours to finish. At the end, I am really exhausted to answer an
Principal Software Development Engineer
Bellevue, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2017Applied online and got a call from HR (who was pretty professional and nice) and was scheduled for an interview in 2 days. I immediately had a feeling that the interviewer was absolutely not interested in either conducting the interview or had alrea
Principal Software Development Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesMarch 1, 2016I submitted my resume through the Microsoft website. A recruiter called me after 2-3 weeks. It was an hour-long interview. We spoke about my resume and skillset. I never heard back. I emailed the recruiter after a week, but was ignored.
