Come for the best benefits, good work/life balance, and fair pay
Come for the best benefits, good work/life balance, and fair pay
Benefits are great, and work/life balance is excellent.
The company is too big, and latecomers have a very hard time advancing and proving themselves. Also, Microsoft doesn't value experience gained before joining the company much, which frequently results in putting experienced people at very low pay grades.
Concentrate on excelling at a few areas where we are leading. We should not be in every business under the sun.
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Overall, the interview process is professional. It started with a phone screen, then I flew to Redmond for an on-site interview. The team was quite interested in my past projects and asked for a lot of details. The coding questions were not very har
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The regular interview cycle for MS includes: * One HR round for introductions. * A technical phone screening. * One full day of technical interviews (five in all). Technical interviews required whiteboard skills. In the phone screening, I was
Software Development Engineer II
This was an internal interview process. It started with an informational session with the hiring manager, a roughly one-hour discussion about what the team does, my current responsibilities, and why I was interested in the position. Next, there were
Software Development Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesApril 1, 2013Overall, the interview process is professional. It started with a phone screen, then I flew to Redmond for an on-site interview. The team was quite interested in my past projects and asked for a lot of details. The coding questions were not very har
Software Development Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesApril 1, 2012The regular interview cycle for MS includes: * One HR round for introductions. * A technical phone screening. * One full day of technical interviews (five in all). Technical interviews required whiteboard skills. In the phone screening, I was
Software Development Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesMay 1, 2015This was an internal interview process. It started with an informational session with the hiring manager, a roughly one-hour discussion about what the team does, my current responsibilities, and why I was interested in the position. Next, there were
