Growth, But Slow Impact
Growth, But Slow Impact
The company is on an upward trend by upgrading its outdated internal infrastructure and practices and investing more in new products and services, instead of just Windows.
Still has a lingering culture of complacency.
This can actually be good if you just want a stable job to support a family, but not if you want to really make a big impact with your work (and not wait over a year before your feature gets shipped).
The tech scene in the Seattle area has become much more competitive. The compensation is no longer competitive enough to get and retain the top developers, and this makes keeping up with other companies more difficult. I've had some teammates leave to other companies to make more money. My manager then has a hard time replacing them because the offers we send out to excellent candidates get outbid by other companies.
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Telephonic followed by an on-site interview. I only covered my projects because it was for a University Grad role. The on-site consisted of four whiteboard rounds. Each of those was an algorithms/data structures question.
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I had a phone call with HR, followed by a technical call. The technical call consisted of 10 minutes of technical questions and a coding exercise via a shared link. The question tested basic programming knowledge and debugging skills. I was later ca
Software Development Engineer
I received a referral from a friend and had a phone screen with the manager. This primarily involved questions about the team and my past experience, followed by a quick coding question. After about a month of inactivity, I was invited for an onsite
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Bellevue, Washington, United StatesFebruary 1, 2019Telephonic followed by an on-site interview. I only covered my projects because it was for a University Grad role. The on-site consisted of four whiteboard rounds. Each of those was an algorithms/data structures question.
Software Development Engineer
Bellevue, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2018I had a phone call with HR, followed by a technical call. The technical call consisted of 10 minutes of technical questions and a coding exercise via a shared link. The question tested basic programming knowledge and debugging skills. I was later ca
Software Development Engineer
Bellevue, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2017I received a referral from a friend and had a phone screen with the manager. This primarily involved questions about the team and my past experience, followed by a quick coding question. After about a month of inactivity, I was invited for an onsite
