Good work-life balance most of the time, but little opportunity to grow technical skills
Good work-life balance most of the time, but little opportunity to grow technical skills
Most people work 8-5, so they understand life commitments. Business software isn't going away, which makes the job feel more stable (despite the recent layoffs). Great salary, especially considering the region (your income will likely be in the top 15% for the state of ND as a software engineer).
Dynamics seems to be having an engineering culture crisis, with lots of engineers stuck in their ways, cutting corners at the cost of long-term quality to meet deadlines. Most of what you'll end up doing here are CRUD operations. Don't expect multi-tenancy to be front-and-center in the cloud strategy. User experience gets uneven attention across products and even features within products.
Automated testing is very important. Also, somebody's experiment or side project could keep another company from eating our lunch some day. Encourage some calculated risk.
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I started with an on-campus interview, which lasted for about 20 minutes. I was brought in for an on-site interview at their Fargo location. The interview lasted pretty much all day (about 8 hours) and consisted of 5 sessions plus lunch. The entire
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Fargo, North Dakota, United StatesJanuary 1, 2016Onsite for 4 rounds. I arrived the day before the interview. We had pizza in a local restaurant that night with other peers. I was interviewed in the interviewers' office; they were all very nice. In every round, I was asked about previous projec
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Fargo, North Dakota, United StatesMarch 1, 2013I started with an on-campus interview, which lasted for about 20 minutes. I was brought in for an on-site interview at their Fargo location. The interview lasted pretty much all day (about 8 hours) and consisted of 5 sessions plus lunch. The entire
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Fargo, North Dakota, United StatesJanuary 1, 2012I was a college hire, which I think is the easiest way of getting hired at Microsoft. I initially got interviewed at my university along with 200 other students. Then I got an on-site interview. The on-site interview was a series of 5 interviews: *
