Microsoft in 2011
Microsoft in 2011
Great benefits, awesome transportation options, and (especially when I joined) a reasonable salary.
There were also lots of interest groups that made it a fun place.
The company is really large. When I left Microsoft, there were 11 managers in-between me and the CEO, and I had gone through 2 reorgs.
It's probably impossible, but flattening the structure is a laudable goal. The company has changed a lot in the last 5 years, so this all may be useless.
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Software Development Engineer II
The process was very simple. 1. A recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn. 2. I finished the online coding assessment. From there, a Microsoft Hiring Event day was scheduled. The interview was pretty simple, straight LeetCode. They didn't even change t
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I interviewed for an SDE II position with the Microsoft Academic Graph team. I will say outright that it was an absolutely terrible interview experience for me. The team asked me some specific questions about how I would add features to Microsoft A
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Software Development Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesFebruary 18, 2022The process was very simple. 1. A recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn. 2. I finished the online coding assessment. From there, a Microsoft Hiring Event day was scheduled. The interview was pretty simple, straight LeetCode. They didn't even change t
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2019I interviewed for an SDE II position with the Microsoft Academic Graph team. I will say outright that it was an absolutely terrible interview experience for me. The team asked me some specific questions about how I would add features to Microsoft A
