Excellent environment with work/life balance
Excellent environment with work/life balance
Comprehensive healthcare.
Work on software that's used by millions.
Work/life balance is good; 40 hours is the norm.
Free drinks.
Nice buildings; it's not uncommon for entry-level employees to get their own office.
The development cycle can be slow. The performance review process is long and can be frustrating.
Get rid of stack ranking for performance reviews.
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Software Development Engineer I
The interview process was surprisingly easy and clean. It began with an on-campus filtering interview, followed by a day of on-site interviews in Seattle, all of which occurred within a week. The results were communicated back in less than 48 hours
Software Development Engineer I
I dropped my resume at a college job fair and was then contacted for an on-campus interview. Typical HR questions followed by an easy coding question. After that, I went to Redmond for a full-day on-site interview. This consisted of four interviews
Software Development Engineer I
The process started with a 90-minute online assessment, followed by a technical phone screen with one engineer. The online assessment covered two medium-to-hard algorithm problems. For coding practice, I mainly rely on LeetCode to cover different t
Software Development Engineer I
Redmond, Washington, United StatesMarch 1, 2013The interview process was surprisingly easy and clean. It began with an on-campus filtering interview, followed by a day of on-site interviews in Seattle, all of which occurred within a week. The results were communicated back in less than 48 hours
Software Development Engineer I
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2012I dropped my resume at a college job fair and was then contacted for an on-campus interview. Typical HR questions followed by an easy coding question. After that, I went to Redmond for a full-day on-site interview. This consisted of four interviews
Software Development Engineer I
CanadaJuly 22, 2025The process started with a 90-minute online assessment, followed by a technical phone screen with one engineer. The online assessment covered two medium-to-hard algorithm problems. For coding practice, I mainly rely on LeetCode to cover different t
