Hard to find innovative groups
Hard to find innovative groups
Good work-life balance. Some teams are fun to work with, where you can be a leader if you put in extra work on leadership skills.
Many groups are at steady state, and rarely are there teams genuinely making something new.
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Senior Software Engineer
It was about what I was expecting for the interview process. Microsoft scheduled five interview blocks at their campus, with the fifth being "as appropriate." Each interviewer was primarily interested in evaluating how I thought through the problem,
Senior Software Engineer
The team manager interviewed me and asked initial basic questions for about 15 minutes. Then, they started technical questions related to solving a coding problem. They were very motivating and encouraging, helping me on some parts of the code to ful
Senior Software Engineer
The process was very scatterbrained and poorly run. The group didn't have a clear leader, and their criteria for what they were looking for in an engineer shifted with every interviewer. The interview included a really awkward development test, sat
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesMay 1, 2019It was about what I was expecting for the interview process. Microsoft scheduled five interview blocks at their campus, with the fifth being "as appropriate." Each interviewer was primarily interested in evaluating how I thought through the problem,
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesMay 1, 2024The team manager interviewed me and asked initial basic questions for about 15 minutes. Then, they started technical questions related to solving a coding problem. They were very motivating and encouraging, helping me on some parts of the code to ful
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesSeptember 1, 2017The process was very scatterbrained and poorly run. The group didn't have a clear leader, and their criteria for what they were looking for in an engineer shifted with every interviewer. The interview included a really awkward development test, sat
