Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
My career was spent entirely within the Office organization, so all comments here reflect that experience.
- Opportunity to work with a vast array of technologies and types of development (mobile, desktop, enterprise, services)
- Decent salary with great benefits
- Company is stable with tons of resources to take big risks
- Flexible work schedule
My career was spent entirely within the Office organization, so all comments here reflect that experience.
- Depending on work from a partner team can be risky, especially if the partner team is in a different division. For example, if the other division has a substantial re-org, the work you were counting on may no longer be a priority.
- Performance assessment sometimes reduces to a nebulous "level of impact and influence."
- Shipped products will be deprecated or changed to something incompatible without a good path to an alternative. This is especially problematic for customers but can be demoralizing for employees as well.
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Senior Software Development Engineer
I was initially contacted by a third-party recruiter working for Microsoft about a position on the Xbox team. Not expecting much, I went along with the process and spoke with the recruiter, and then another one. Finally, I was set up with a phone scr
Senior Software Development Engineer
Normal phone screening first, followed by the full interview loop. Three rounds were completed: * The first two interviews focused on algorithms, specifically linked lists and binary search trees. * The third interview was a design question.
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
Redmond, Washington, United StatesAugust 1, 2010I was initially contacted by a third-party recruiter working for Microsoft about a position on the Xbox team. Not expecting much, I went along with the process and spoke with the recruiter, and then another one. Finally, I was set up with a phone scr
Senior Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesDecember 1, 2014Normal phone screening first, followed by the full interview loop. Three rounds were completed: * The first two interviews focused on algorithms, specifically linked lists and binary search trees. * The third interview was a design question.
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
