Great place to learn and grow
Great place to learn and grow
Ability to move between and work on different product lines within the company.
Reasonable work-life balance (WLB).
The company is trying to execute fast in all product lines.
Excellent benefits.
Microsoft has started embracing open source and contributes as well.
Many a time, [one] adds features to products that are technologically great but may not get customer adoption quickly. So, it may be hard sometimes to see the impact of your work if you are working on such a feature.
Too many reorganizations disturb the rhythm of work. It forces people to focus on reestablishing the context, trust, etc., which is an impediment to faster progress.
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesJune 1, 2012I was contacted by an external recruiter via LinkedIn. The job seemed interesting, with their game studio. Supposedly they're working on some kind of super-secret project over there that not even a signed NDA can loosen their lips about. But they re
