Good Perks, Slow Innovation
Good Perks, Slow Innovation
- Shuttle system all over WA to and from campus made life great.
- Yearly Intern Signature Event + free gift.
- You will be in the company of talented and seasoned engineers.
Most of Microsoft's products are strongly bound to legacy code, which makes them trepidacious about original ideas. I was supposed to make an extension to some auxiliary production software. It took six weeks (halfway through my internship) before I was allowed to write a line of code!
Take this with a grain of salt. At Microsoft, the most important thing is what team you're on. I was not very excited about my particular team's work.
Management is doing a good job of keeping a hulking metal behemoth like Microsoft from grinding to a halt. I wish MS could restructure its dependencies such that it could break more barriers with technology.
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I saw an ad for the opportunity at college and applied. After passing the CV screening, I had a phone interview. This was for an opening in Redmond targeted at Brazilian students. The interviewer asked about my college experiences, previous programm
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Had a first-round phone interview for an internship position. The interviewer called me, and since it was a 30-minute interview, it was mainly just technical questions. This was more of a general interview targeted at many positions.
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The interview process included a phone screen with a recruiter and four technical interviews on site. The phone screen was mostly behavioral. When a technical question was asked, the recruiter simply wrote down the answer with no follow-up questions
Software Development Engineer (Intern)
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJanuary 29, 2014I saw an ad for the opportunity at college and applied. After passing the CV screening, I had a phone interview. This was for an opening in Redmond targeted at Brazilian students. The interviewer asked about my college experiences, previous programm
Firmware Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesSeptember 1, 2019Had a first-round phone interview for an internship position. The interviewer called me, and since it was a 30-minute interview, it was mainly just technical questions. This was more of a general interview targeted at many positions.
Software Engineer University Grad
Redmond, Washington, United StatesOctober 1, 2016The interview process included a phone screen with a recruiter and four technical interviews on site. The phone screen was mostly behavioral. When a technical question was asked, the recruiter simply wrote down the answer with no follow-up questions
