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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Senior Software Development Engineer Lead
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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Phone call. Chat about past projects. One coding question with follow-ups. One design question about how to design a search system for information retrieval, which can deal with multi-modal data input.
Software Development Engineer
I submitted my resume online at the end of the year (in December). The HR department informed me that they would contact me only in January or February, as they normally freeze hiring for new graduates during that period. As promised, they contacted
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
Redmond, Washington, United StatesDecember 1, 2017Phone call. Chat about past projects. One coding question with follow-ups. One design question about how to design a search system for information retrieval, which can deal with multi-modal data input.
Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesFebruary 1, 2013I submitted my resume online at the end of the year (in December). The HR department informed me that they would contact me only in January or February, as they normally freeze hiring for new graduates during that period. As promised, they contacted
