Great Impact, Stifled By Process
Great Impact, Stifled By Process
Smart people, interesting work, ability to impact millions of customers, top-notch benefits, good work/life balance, virtually unlimited potential for career growth.
A top-down approach to product design can stifle engineers. There is a lot of process around everything, and it's hard to see how it makes us more productive. We stop coding nearly a year before our product ships – how can we ever be an agile company?
Open up more engineering positions outside of Redmond.
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Software Development Engineer II
There was a meet and greet at a restaurant in my area. Microsoft paid for food and such. Soon after, I received some emails and LinkedIn profiles, and then a phone interview. I did well and went straight to the onsite. It was a full day of intervi
Software Development Engineer II
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
Contacted the dev manager to ask about the position and had a phone interview scheduled after that. I then applied to the position on the internal site and was scheduled for interviews with 5 more people, which included tasks and technical questions.
Software Development Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJune 1, 2016There was a meet and greet at a restaurant in my area. Microsoft paid for food and such. Soon after, I received some emails and LinkedIn profiles, and then a phone interview. I did well and went straight to the onsite. It was a full day of intervi
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 StatesMarch 1, 2012Contacted the dev manager to ask about the position and had a phone interview scheduled after that. I then applied to the position on the internal site and was scheduled for interviews with 5 more people, which included tasks and technical questions.
