Great place for factory workers
Great place for factory workers
Microsoft is a very successful company as a whole. It is very competitive.
It has a good reputation for the quality of people it hires. It is very stable and financially healthy.
It has competitiveness and ambition to do better in its DNA. If you like that environment, there is a culture of open (yet respectful) criticism. It is possible to voice one's opinion in meetings.
Health benefits are great. If you stay around long enough, the pay is good.
The middle management is awful: a mixture of cowardice, self-interest, and incompetence.
Microsoft is replete with self-serving types, all in heavily guarded fiefdoms. There is no accountability after shipping. Doing good work is hard, and getting rewarded for it is harder.
The middle management is awful.
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Senior Software Development Engineer
As an internal interview process, I had only 3 interviews to go through. When I joined as an SDE 15 years ago, it was quite different. They usually scheduled the first 3 interview loops. If all 3 interviews went well, it would then proceed to 2 more
Senior Software Development Engineer
A recruiter contacted me via LinkedIn and set up phone interviews with three different groups. Two groups wanted to bring me on-site for a final interview. **On-Site Interview with Group #1:** The hiring manager openly expressed his desire to hire
Senior Software Development Engineer
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
Senior Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesSeptember 1, 2012As an internal interview process, I had only 3 interviews to go through. When I joined as an SDE 15 years ago, it was quite different. They usually scheduled the first 3 interview loops. If all 3 interviews went well, it would then proceed to 2 more
Senior Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJune 1, 2017A recruiter contacted me via LinkedIn and set up phone interviews with three different groups. Two groups wanted to bring me on-site for a final interview. **On-Site Interview with Group #1:** The hiring manager openly expressed his desire to hire
Senior Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJune 1, 2010The 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
