Great company to work for, depending on what team you end up on
Great company to work for, depending on what team you end up on
- Cutting-edge technology
- Very smart people
- Fame
- Benefits (through end of 2012)
- Learning and growth opportunities
- Some teams value quantity over quality; be careful where you end up.
- Benefits are going away. Many tend to think Microsoft is the only employer with good insurance coverage, but this is not true, as many others offer insurance with no copays or deductibles.
- Food is unhealthy (calories, fat, sodium, etc.) and expensive at our cafeterias (with a minor exception in the Commons).
- SDET staff tend to stagnate in their level longer than other roles.
- If one team has higher standards or bars for performance reviews, pay should be higher.
- Pick better leads. Leads are not always good at dealing with people, to the detriment of employees and their morale.
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Microsoft Interview Questions
Microsoft Interview Experiences
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
Contacted by the recruiter through LinkedIn. Initial phone screen with the hiring manager. Asked to explain a project listed on the resume. Asked about algorithmic and data structure choices made in that project. Write a program to find the word w
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
Fairly straightforward - like any other company. A phone screen - followed by 5 rounds on site. Questions were of the following nature: design a cache subsystem, spiral order printing of a matrix, regex implementation for * and ?, binary tree rotatio
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
I've been through this process with Amazon and Google before, and the phone screening process is pretty much the same. Not too many questions about my resume or experience, but algorithm and data structure questions. I got a response the next day to
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
United StatesFebruary 1, 2013Contacted by the recruiter through LinkedIn. Initial phone screen with the hiring manager. Asked to explain a project listed on the resume. Asked about algorithmic and data structure choices made in that project. Write a program to find the word w
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesOctober 1, 2011Fairly straightforward - like any other company. A phone screen - followed by 5 rounds on site. Questions were of the following nature: design a cache subsystem, spiral order printing of a matrix, regex implementation for * and ?, binary tree rotatio
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
Bellevue, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2011I've been through this process with Amazon and Google before, and the phone screening process is pretty much the same. Not too many questions about my resume or experience, but algorithm and data structure questions. I got a response the next day to
