Still a great company, but desperately needs to be leaner and more efficient
Still a great company, but desperately needs to be leaner and more efficient
Work with some of the smartest people daily. I frequently have the opportunity to brainstorm with smart minds about ideas, software designs, and implementation. It's actually a good place to improve your own knowledge while making an impact to millions of users, if not more.
Well, it's a huge company. Inefficiency and bureaucracy are very easy to spot. There are easily about 30% of people, if not more, who are not really contributing anything. But some of them are getting promoted due to office politics.
Stay hungry, stay nimble
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Senior Software Development Engineer
A very standard interview process for technical software engineering jobs. It started with resume submission, followed by a couple of phone interviews and then an on-campus interview loop. The on-campus interview loop mostly consisted of whiteboard
Senior Software Development Engineer
The interview took the whole day. Five individuals interrogated for one hour each, plus the hiring manager at the end.
Senior Software Development Engineer
The interview was easy. There were 5 rounds of interviews, including a final HR round. The initial offer was for a 100% hike, but the final offer made by them was for an SDET role, and I had applied for an SDE role. Therefore, I rejected the offer
Senior Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesApril 1, 2008A very standard interview process for technical software engineering jobs. It started with resume submission, followed by a couple of phone interviews and then an on-campus interview loop. The on-campus interview loop mostly consisted of whiteboard
Senior Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJuly 1, 2010The interview took the whole day. Five individuals interrogated for one hour each, plus the hiring manager at the end.
Senior Software Development Engineer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJanuary 1, 2015The interview was easy. There were 5 rounds of interviews, including a final HR round. The initial offer was for a 100% hike, but the final offer made by them was for an SDET role, and I had applied for an SDE role. Therefore, I rejected the offer
