A big playground, a small sandbox
A big playground, a small sandbox
It is a great place to get a solid foundation of the full SDLC and build up the necessary skills required to be a software engineer.
Your job role also defines the limits to your scope of influence. Senior engineers coming in with product, customer, or design knowledge? You can forget about being able to use any of that. They totally waste the resources they have. Managers have the power to do nothing of any real consequence.
Don't talk about diversity if you don't understand what it means in terms of product development.
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After the initial recruiter alignment, you move directly to the technical round conducted by the hiring manager. The overall experience is lively and real, full of technical questions and a technical coding challenge to solve.
Senior Software Engineer
I applied directly on the Microsoft site and hadn't heard any updates for two months. In fact, I thought I hadn't been selected to move forward after no response for two weeks, so I was a little surprised to receive updates. The phone screening inte
Senior Software Engineer
The hiring manager reached out to me for an initial round. I had a casual conversation with her, which included behavioral questions. Post that, I had my loop round, which involved three rounds. All of them were similar: a few behavioral questions a
Senior Software Engineer
Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaMay 1, 2024After the initial recruiter alignment, you move directly to the technical round conducted by the hiring manager. The overall experience is lively and real, full of technical questions and a technical coding challenge to solve.
Senior Software Engineer
Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaOctober 1, 2022I applied directly on the Microsoft site and hadn't heard any updates for two months. In fact, I thought I hadn't been selected to move forward after no response for two weeks, so I was a little surprised to receive updates. The phone screening inte
Senior Software Engineer
Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaAugust 1, 2021The hiring manager reached out to me for an initial round. I had a casual conversation with her, which included behavioral questions. Post that, I had my loop round, which involved three rounds. All of them were similar: a few behavioral questions a
