You get to work on interesting, challenging problems. Products used by millions or hundreds of millions.
Hours are flexible with no reporting. As long as you're getting your work done, nobody cares about your hours. Nobody cares about how you dress either.
Some degree of internal politics, but that's unavoidable.
We need to be faster and make better decisions about competing with our major competitors like Apple and Google.
I applied on microsoft.com/careers for multiple positions. About a month later, I was emailed a document that included some questions asking me to rate myself in various programming languages, as well as a coding question. The question was to impleme
A full-day process, broken into multiple individual one-on-one interviews. These interviews can include time at the blackboard, writing snippets of code or scripting. Not for the faint of heart or the unprepared.
The initial phone screen was friendly. The recruiter was helpful and gave some good tips on what kind of questions to expect. However, they should be doing a better job screening candidates and not just randomly interviewing developers with no testi
I applied on microsoft.com/careers for multiple positions. About a month later, I was emailed a document that included some questions asking me to rate myself in various programming languages, as well as a coding question. The question was to impleme
A full-day process, broken into multiple individual one-on-one interviews. These interviews can include time at the blackboard, writing snippets of code or scripting. Not for the faint of heart or the unprepared.
The initial phone screen was friendly. The recruiter was helpful and gave some good tips on what kind of questions to expect. However, they should be doing a better job screening candidates and not just randomly interviewing developers with no testi