Great place to work
Great place to work
You will be judged by your overall performance at the end of the year. If you contribute a lot, you will get a large bonus; a little, and you will get a small or no bonus.
You won't get credit for attendance.
Company's commitment to work/life balance is not rhetoric.
Lots of emails, distractions. Lots of overhead to ship product. Will move bigger, more important mountains, but will not move them as quickly. If a small company environment is what you crave, this is not the place for you.
Focus on day-to-day engineering and customer satisfaction, not necessarily "innovation". Chrome is not winning against IE because it is "innovative", but because it is faster, more reliable, and implements basic features well.
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At first, I was enrolled in their internal employee referral system, thanks to the help of my friends. A month later, I was told that my resume hadn't raised any interest, and I thought I had been rejected. However, days after that, another recruiter
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The interview process involves four onsite rounds, with the initial round being an online coding assessment. Each round lasted 45 minutes and included two system design and two coding challenges, along with behavioral questions. The system design rou
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I applied through an employee referral. - During the full loop, along with LeetCode problems, the focus was more on system design and non-functional requirements in design. - Low-level as well as high-level system design questions were asked.
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2016At first, I was enrolled in their internal employee referral system, thanks to the help of my friends. A month later, I was told that my resume hadn't raised any interest, and I thought I had been rejected. However, days after that, another recruiter
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesMarch 1, 2021The interview process involves four onsite rounds, with the initial round being an online coding assessment. Each round lasted 45 minutes and included two system design and two coding challenges, along with behavioral questions. The system design rou
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesDecember 19, 2025I applied through an employee referral. - During the full loop, along with LeetCode problems, the focus was more on system design and non-functional requirements in design. - Low-level as well as high-level system design questions were asked.
