Great company, but slow to adapt and change
Great company, but slow to adapt and change
Great benefits, competitive salaries. Some teams have good technical skills.
Influencing the company's direction is hard.
Listen to people with technical skills; get involved with people in the trenches. Be more outward competitive and less inward competitive: spend more time and energy on engineering and delivering a good product instead of taking credit and trying to optimize your career path.
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Principal Software Engineer
The interview process was scattered and multi-tiered. I spoke with several resources before getting to the hiring manager. Initial discussions were very high-level and generic. They acted more like HR screeners, even though they had IT knowledge. Fi
Principal Software Engineer
I unfortunately had a very bad experience with more than one Microsoft recruiter. They all treated candidates in a very sloppy and irresponsible way. All other companies' recruiters have done their due diligence to complete some internal screening pr
Principal Software Engineer
Had two conversations and did not hear back from the team manager. The conversation seemed pleasant, but I was going the managerial route, which might have played against me. Did not get a data structure or algorithm question.
Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2021The interview process was scattered and multi-tiered. I spoke with several resources before getting to the hiring manager. Initial discussions were very high-level and generic. They acted more like HR screeners, even though they had IT knowledge. Fi
Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesSeptember 28, 2018I unfortunately had a very bad experience with more than one Microsoft recruiter. They all treated candidates in a very sloppy and irresponsible way. All other companies' recruiters have done their due diligence to complete some internal screening pr
Principal Software Engineer
United StatesOctober 4, 2024Had two conversations and did not hear back from the team manager. The conversation seemed pleasant, but I was going the managerial route, which might have played against me. Did not get a data structure or algorithm question.
