Extremely talented people work for Microsoft, doing extraordinary things for the customer, making it a great place to learn a lot really fast.
The performance review process still stack ranks employees, as it always has since the Gates era. It's just that the words "stack ranked" aren't used anymore. While I agree that a lot of change has been made in this area, more work is needed.
Listen to your people with more compassion and empathy.
Initially, I had a recruiter call. She was really good to me. I was asked to complete a take-home online coding assessment using Codility and got through that stage. Then, I was scheduled for four one-hour interviews back-to-back on a single day. T
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
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,
Initially, I had a recruiter call. She was really good to me. I was asked to complete a take-home online coding assessment using Codility and got through that stage. Then, I was scheduled for four one-hour interviews back-to-back on a single day. T
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
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,