Pros and Cons to work for Microsoft
Pros and Cons to work for Microsoft
Microsoft has a good work ambience and smart folks. The company allows a good balance of professional and personal aspirations. Being a bigger organization, it has a really wide spectrum of projects, teams, and groups.
It's difficult to get end-to-end project life cycle experience. For example, hardly a single person can look at bootstrapping, brainstorming, development, and shipping, since most products use existing building blocks or they require different folks to execute different parts.
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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
The interview process so far has been quite engaging. I have successfully completed the initial phone screening, which was followed by a detailed discussion with the hiring manager regarding the role and expectations. Moving forward, I have four te
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
Raleigh, North Carolina, United StatesMay 1, 2023The interview process so far has been quite engaging. I have successfully completed the initial phone screening, which was followed by a detailed discussion with the hiring manager regarding the role and expectations. Moving forward, I have four te
