Resourceful. Cool people. Good benefits.
I was interviewed by and assigned to a team that had nothing much to do with my preference, interest, or experience.
I was an SDET, but I was given projects for an SDE.
Better skill matching
I submitted an application online and was contacted within a couple of days. I did a phone interview, and within two days of the phone interview, I was contacted and asked to come on-site for a series of interviews. I had three one-on-one interview
Basic HR questions, such as "Why are you interested in working for Microsoft?" and "What do you currently do in your job now?" Then, 3 basic CS questions, like "What is polymorphism?" Finally, a testing question. I got hung up on the testing quest
I was first interviewed at my university campus in Europe. It was a 45-minute interview with standard questions about programming languages and problem-solving. About two to three months after that, I traveled to Redmond, WA, for the second round of
I submitted an application online and was contacted within a couple of days. I did a phone interview, and within two days of the phone interview, I was contacted and asked to come on-site for a series of interviews. I had three one-on-one interview
Basic HR questions, such as "Why are you interested in working for Microsoft?" and "What do you currently do in your job now?" Then, 3 basic CS questions, like "What is polymorphism?" Finally, a testing question. I got hung up on the testing quest
I was first interviewed at my university campus in Europe. It was a 45-minute interview with standard questions about programming languages and problem-solving. About two to three months after that, I traveled to Redmond, WA, for the second round of