A big company offers a great opportunity to waste great possibilities
A big company offers a great opportunity to waste great possibilities
Lots of smart and nice people. Lots of new stuff to learn. Opportunity to have a big impact. Good salaries.
Fish starts to rot from its head.
There are good teams, but most are in a dismal state. This is due to management, three levels of hierarchy away from you, not having a clue about what's going on, or not even caring about it due to some twisted, short-sighted incentive they have.
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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
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
They plan three interviews. If they go well, another three may be scheduled. Otherwise, the candidate is rejected. I was stumped on a coding question to write all possible string combinations that can be generated by pressing a variable number of ce
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 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 StatesDecember 1, 2009They plan three interviews. If they go well, another three may be scheduled. Otherwise, the candidate is rejected. I was stumped on a coding question to write all possible string combinations that can be generated by pressing a variable number of ce
