Great change in culture since Satya took over. Supportive environment, lots of new opportunities.
Everything is building crazy fast, and many tools for building and operating services at scale are behind what Amazon, Google, and Facebook have. Other tools and frameworks fall to disinvestment or pullback. Lots of knowledge sharing still suffers from the SharePoint "not searchable/restricted access" syndrome.
Invest heavily in engineering excellence, institutional knowledge, and openness.
On site from internal referral
I submitted my resume directly to the hiring manager. After one round of phone interview with the hiring manager, I was invited to the onsite interview. At the beginning of the day, HR gave me a list of only three interviewers, all principal engine
The interview took the whole day. Five individuals interrogated for one hour each, plus the hiring manager at the end.
On site from internal referral
I submitted my resume directly to the hiring manager. After one round of phone interview with the hiring manager, I was invited to the onsite interview. At the beginning of the day, HR gave me a list of only three interviewers, all principal engine
The interview took the whole day. Five individuals interrogated for one hour each, plus the hiring manager at the end.