Smart Team, Pigeonholed Role
Smart Team, Pigeonholed Role
Work with smart people.
Flexible work hours.
Good salary and benefits.
Good work-life balance.
They supported me going back to school part-time to further my education.
Lots of interesting products to work on.
Easily get pigeon-holed into doing the same thing. It's hard to move around and expand to new areas.
There's a mixed bag of managers: some good, some bad.
Performance reviews are few and far between. The end-of-year results, which determine bonus, salary, and promotions, did not always reflect the feedback I had received from my managers throughout the year.
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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
