MSFT - no longer the fun company it once was
MSFT - no longer the fun company it once was
Benefits and flexible work schedule.
Expected to work 50-60 hr weeks, often with little acknowledgement while others get credit. The annual review process is completely unfair, as everyone gets stack-ranked against peers and then forced into a bell curve. This distributes merit and bonus accordingly. Doing one's job function flawlessly may still result in a below-par review. Upward mobility and rewards are often extremely political. Bonus scales are ridiculously tipped to upper management.
Increase QA and ship quality instead of rushing things out the door.
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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
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
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
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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
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesApril 1, 2013The 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
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesFebruary 1, 2009I 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
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
