Microsoft pays well and offers good benefits. There is a lot of prestige that comes with working at such a famous company.
Management is bloated and inefficient. At times, you feel like a worker bee in a vast colony that doesn't pay attention to you.
Get down in the trenches and talk to employees rather than taking them for granted.
I was originally interviewed for a team where, after the full loop of six interviews, the hiring manager ran into a headcount problem. She talked to another team in the same organization, and they contacted me. The hiring manager gave me a general o
I 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
It is a day-long process at MS. You typically meet the recruiter, who sends you to take an MS shuttle to the building where the team you are interviewing with resides. Microsoft groups are spread across many buildings in a large area. They have nice
I was originally interviewed for a team where, after the full loop of six interviews, the hiring manager ran into a headcount problem. She talked to another team in the same organization, and they contacted me. The hiring manager gave me a general o
I 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
It is a day-long process at MS. You typically meet the recruiter, who sends you to take an MS shuttle to the building where the team you are interviewing with resides. Microsoft groups are spread across many buildings in a large area. They have nice