Benefits, work-life balance, and a good school district around the Bellevue-Redmond area.
The city is also nice, is liberal, and focuses on the environment.
Windows is the main con, I guess. Some managers are still stuck in the old culture, which is definitely dying.
Embrace open source more. Get rid of Yammer; it is a piece of junk. Fix the internal search; why is it so terrible?
The interview was mostly centered around designing a system, algorithms, and also some puzzles. The interview was not too difficult for me. One of the puzzles was the "aha" type that I could not solve without hints from the interviewer. I would sa
The hiring process takes two weeks and is standard, with nothing out of the ordinary. They flew me up from the Bay Area in San Francisco, CA. The questions are mainly technical and pretty simple. Most managers don't remember some of the stuff thems
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
The interview was mostly centered around designing a system, algorithms, and also some puzzles. The interview was not too difficult for me. One of the puzzles was the "aha" type that I could not solve without hints from the interviewer. I would sa
The hiring process takes two weeks and is standard, with nothing out of the ordinary. They flew me up from the Bay Area in San Francisco, CA. The questions are mainly technical and pretty simple. Most managers don't remember some of the stuff thems
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