It's hard to walk away from the money
It's hard to walk away from the money
Stable company with good benefits and some interesting things to work on.
Far too much middle management overhead and wasted time on things other than getting great stuff into the public's hands.
Overly risk-averse. Roll the dice where it makes sense.
Get better at using BI on your own internal data to run development operations. Eat your own dogfood and use TFS and Project to run all your own projects. Convert 25% of your leads that are strong ICs back to ICs, keep the 50% that are technically strong and great people managers, and reallocate the 25% dead weight to hire more ICs or invest in creating more innovative products.
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Senior Software Development Engineer
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
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
The interview consists of 5 rounds. The first round is easy. The following three rounds increase in difficulty. If you are lucky, you may encounter a "hard mode" (HM) round. Sometimes, depending on the team, there might be 6 rounds.
Senior Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJuly 1, 2010I 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
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
Senior Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesMarch 1, 2011The interview consists of 5 rounds. The first round is easy. The following three rounds increase in difficulty. If you are lucky, you may encounter a "hard mode" (HM) round. Sometimes, depending on the team, there might be 6 rounds.
