There is a layer of management that has been here for 15+ years and is entrenched in a 'good old boys' culture. If you tow the line and kiss the ring, you will be fine. Your good ideas are theirs, and your bad ones are yours.
Your career fate is tied to your manager. Promotion, growth, and rewards are impacted by your impact on the business and equally on your ability to kiss the ring. Make sure you have a manager that supports you or quickly find another manager.
My advice is: don't take any role that doesn't have high visibility. Avoid any role that involves the regular running of the business. That is thankless work.
If culture and inclusion are important to you, avoid Microsoft for now. If this doesn't matter, welcome on board.
Culture. Change is coming but too slow. Hard work is more rewarding in an inclusive environment. Kudos to those who have put in 15+ years to build the company. With that, this is no reason to view the new guard as a disruption, but as an asset to the growth of your stock price.
Immediately, I was unable to reschedule and was forced to do the interview at their preferred time, even though it was very inconvenient for me. The first interview, the interviewer sabotaged me by not letting me solve the LeetCode question that req
Aptitude matters. Coding matters. Clean coding matters. Approach, more than answer, matters. Sometimes, the problem might just be puzzles. And more than solving, how you think about the solution matters more.
Very disappointed. One interviewer was from a different team (replacing another interviewer) and continued to ask questions on topics that were not very related to the position and that I am not familiar with.
Immediately, I was unable to reschedule and was forced to do the interview at their preferred time, even though it was very inconvenient for me. The first interview, the interviewer sabotaged me by not letting me solve the LeetCode question that req
Aptitude matters. Coding matters. Clean coding matters. Approach, more than answer, matters. Sometimes, the problem might just be puzzles. And more than solving, how you think about the solution matters more.
Very disappointed. One interviewer was from a different team (replacing another interviewer) and continued to ask questions on topics that were not very related to the position and that I am not familiar with.