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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Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
Four rounds of 45-minute whiteboard drills to showcase coding skills. There is very little focus on the behavioral aspect.
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
Very well thought out and organized. The questions were difficult, but not so hard that they couldn't be answered.
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
This was a college campus interview process. Microsoft makes it a point to hire bigtime from colleges. They had a booth at the career fair, and I submitted my resume there. I was shortlisted for an interview on campus. This was just a screening int
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJanuary 11, 2014Four rounds of 45-minute whiteboard drills to showcase coding skills. There is very little focus on the behavioral aspect.
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
Redmond, Washington, United StatesOctober 1, 2007Very well thought out and organized. The questions were difficult, but not so hard that they couldn't be answered.
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
Redmond, Washington, United StatesMarch 1, 2008This was a college campus interview process. Microsoft makes it a point to hire bigtime from colleges. They had a booth at the career fair, and I submitted my resume there. I was shortlisted for an interview on campus. This was just a screening int
