A great, but incredibly frustrating, learning experience
A great, but incredibly frustrating, learning experience
There is so much to learn from working at Microsoft. I became a much better employee, both technically and professionally, because of my experience. The work environment is very nice, including private offices, which are becoming more and more rare. It looks great on your resume.
The culture is caustic. Stack ranking encourages managers to find fault and assume wrongdoing where none was intended and no harm occurred. Some managers retain underperforming employees on staff in order to avoid having to give valuable employees a poor annual rating. There is very little room for innovation. Most work at Microsoft is an attempt to copy the success of others. This makes work unfulfilling.
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Software Development Engineer II
One of my friends recommended me for the SDE position in the online billing group. An HR representative helped me arrange the whole process, including one round of phone screen and several rounds of on-site interviews. Each round of interview was tec
Software Development Engineer II
The phone interview was pleasant. The questions were mostly related to previous work, with one on C# and one coding question on array manipulation. The interviewer provided a detailed description of the team and the projects they are working on, and
Software Development Engineer II
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
Software Development Engineer II
Shanghai, Shanghai, ChinaApril 1, 2010One of my friends recommended me for the SDE position in the online billing group. An HR representative helped me arrange the whole process, including one round of phone screen and several rounds of on-site interviews. Each round of interview was tec
Software Development Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2013The phone interview was pleasant. The questions were mostly related to previous work, with one on C# and one coding question on array manipulation. The interviewer provided a detailed description of the team and the projects they are working on, and
Software Development Engineer II
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
