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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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
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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.
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The process was HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager, and then a three-interview loop that covered two system design rounds and one DSA round. The system design was intensive and challenging. It took them five weeks to come
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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
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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.
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Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaJune 16, 2026The process was HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager, and then a three-interview loop that covered two system design rounds and one DSA round. The system design was intensive and challenging. It took them five weeks to come
