Great perks and opportunities to learn. Mediocre performance review model
Great perks and opportunities to learn. Mediocre performance review model
Compensation is competitive. Perks of working at one of the largest software companies are cool (beta testing, access to all products for free, etc.). There are lots of opportunities for lateral movement within the company to work on something totally different.
Review model forces employees to compete with each other instead of collaborate. Lots of focus around 'visibility.' Ie., you get rewarded more if you are the loudest person in the room, but not as much for doing great work.
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I was contacted by a recruiter and followed up with a phone interview. An in-person interview was then set up. The setup process for the flight was somewhat bureaucratic, but the interview itself went smoothly. While the technical questions were go
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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
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
I submitted my resume and spoke briefly with a representative at the job fair on campus. I received a call back a couple of days later. They were extremely fast to schedule an on-site interview, which took place in about two weeks. The interview was
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesMay 1, 2012I was contacted by a recruiter and followed up with a phone interview. An in-person interview was then set up. The setup process for the flight was somewhat bureaucratic, but the interview itself went smoothly. While the technical questions were go
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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
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesJanuary 13, 2013I submitted my resume and spoke briefly with a representative at the job fair on campus. I received a call back a couple of days later. They were extremely fast to schedule an on-site interview, which took place in about two weeks. The interview was
