Lead Senior Software Developer
Lead Senior Software Developer
It is definitely progressive where idea generation and vision are created. Solving problems and developing great software that offers new features never seen before is what can happen within the teams at Microsoft. Just building the best is the main reason.
Communication needs to be improved with teams and upwards to management. I'd like to see communication on the scale and quality of what Scott Guthrie did with his teams.
Listen to the developers. They hold the key to making systems easy to change and be flexible.
Developers, those who are seasoned, know how to design and architect systems so competitors could never catch up and the end user will be delighted.
Watch out for lingo overuse, where one is giving the appearance of technical understanding when they really do not have a grasp on what is possible and how to get there.
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Phone call - reviewing my CV 1st one-on-one meeting was scheduled. A few days later, it was 1.5 hours long. In the meeting, I was asked to detail the architecture of a project I was working on, plus all kinds of questions about it (e.g., "How did yo
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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.
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It was one round, two interviews: one technical and one behavioral. It took about a month to get the interview request and a week to hear back. The behavioral round also had some minimal technical questions.
Senior Software Development Engineer Lead
IsraelMarch 19, 2014Phone call - reviewing my CV 1st one-on-one meeting was scheduled. A few days later, it was 1.5 hours long. In the meeting, I was asked to detail the architecture of a project I was working on, plus all kinds of questions about it (e.g., "How did yo
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.
Software Engineering Intern
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 20, 2025It was one round, two interviews: one technical and one behavioral. It took about a month to get the interview request and a week to hear back. The behavioral round also had some minimal technical questions.
