Flexible hours and smart, passionate co-workers.
Many different products and markets to choose from.
Allows for work/life balance.
Competitive. Can eat up all your time if you let it. Low regard in the blogosphere.
I'd like more cross-organization transparency. I understand what happens in my business unit, but I don't know why other business units make the decisions they do.
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
1. Code up StrStr 2. OO questions, like the difference between encapsulation and inheritance 3. Reverse a linked list
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
1. Code up StrStr 2. OO questions, like the difference between encapsulation and inheritance 3. Reverse a linked list