Great place to work if you're twenty-something and single with no life
Great place to work if you're twenty-something and single with no life
Being on the inside of one of the most successful software companies ever.
As an American engineer with 20 years of experience, and a family with 3 kids, I simply could not compete with all the young talent imported from other countries, making half my salary and working 80 hours a week. At my level, I was expected to put in more hours and consistently got bad reviews, not because of anything I did, but by comparison to my peers. Unsustainable.
Scale down. Longhorn (Vista) was a disaster because of too many cooks in the kitchen. Microsoft eventually gets it right by version 3, so don't try to shoot for the moon on version 1 of anything.
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Lots of brain puzzles and escalating interviews with different people on the team. Read the books on brain puzzles asked at MS interviews. They're not wrong. Most people interview with multiple teams. However, if all your interviews are with one te
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
The interview process was good. The interview was mainly based on coding. There were no specific testing questions. The interview covered: * A question on arrays. * A question on Linked Lists, specifically how to insert a node. * A question o
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
Initially, I was contacted by a recruiter. I had a quick phone screening and then was called for an onsite interview. The onsite interview was horrible because one of the interviewers was jumping randomly between questions. I believe the interviewer
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesApril 1, 2017Lots of brain puzzles and escalating interviews with different people on the team. Read the books on brain puzzles asked at MS interviews. They're not wrong. Most people interview with multiple teams. However, if all your interviews are with one te
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
Redmond, Washington, United StatesDecember 1, 2016The interview process was good. The interview was mainly based on coding. There were no specific testing questions. The interview covered: * A question on arrays. * A question on Linked Lists, specifically how to insert a node. * A question o
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
Redmond, Washington, United StatesFebruary 24, 2016Initially, I was contacted by a recruiter. I had a quick phone screening and then was called for an onsite interview. The onsite interview was horrible because one of the interviewers was jumping randomly between questions. I believe the interviewer
