Great technology, but could be more customer-centric
Great technology, but could be more customer-centric
Microsoft is a big company with lots of opportunities.
Good ideas can get traction wherever they come from. Junior employees can make a difference.
In spite of an effort to promote a “Microsoft Culture”, different parts of the company have quite different cultures.
Often, they try to solve all problems by writing code – even problems that could be better solved other ways.
Find or grow middle managers who value people and grow teams.
Take a longer-term view of organizational health.
Encourage engineers to broaden by switching teams more.
Focus on customers more and products less.
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Senior Software Development Engineer In Test Lead
I was very impressed with the efficiency of the hiring process. After submitting my resume on Microsoft.com/jobs, I did not hear from the team I applied to. But within a week, I was contacted by a different team about a job that was a better fit. T
Senior Software Development Engineer In Test Lead
HR will arrange the whole process. It really depends on the team. But mostly, multiple people will interview you, and there will be a senior person at the end to decide whether to make an offer. For an SDET leader, they mostly look for leadership a
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.
Senior Software Development Engineer In Test Lead
Redmond, Washington, United StatesSeptember 1, 2010I was very impressed with the efficiency of the hiring process. After submitting my resume on Microsoft.com/jobs, I did not hear from the team I applied to. But within a week, I was contacted by a different team about a job that was a better fit. T
Senior Software Development Engineer In Test Lead
United StatesApril 7, 2014HR will arrange the whole process. It really depends on the team. But mostly, multiple people will interview you, and there will be a senior person at the end to decide whether to make an offer. For an SDET leader, they mostly look for leadership a
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.
