Good Pay, Slow Impact
Good Pay, Slow Impact
There are many opportunities to move around within the company, and you are encouraged to move around if you are unhappy.
Compensation/benefits are very good; I've never had any complaints there.
It's a very corporate culture. To make a real impact on a product's vision, you have to wade through multiple levels of middle management first.
Cut out some levels of middle management. I know we're a huge company that ships lots of products, but the management structure makes it hard to have a real impact outside of your tiny feature area.
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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
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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
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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
