Good place to work
Good place to work
Microsoft really takes care of its employees, and there are certainly opportunities for advancement in a wide variety of fields.
If you're in a group with a bunch of high performers, you'll lose promotion velocity unless you're able to get the lion's share of high-visibility work.
Feature creep and politics make development frustrating at times.
Eliminate feature creep. Make feature decisions based upon what's best for the customer, not on what's going to get you promoted.
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I was approached by a recruiter who was interested in my profile and invited me to a hiring event. Before the interview was confirmed, I was asked to take an online technical screen. The technical screen was fairly difficult, with a time limit. The
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One non-technical phone interview from a recruiter. Four rounds of interviews for onsite. Three people are grouped together, interviewing with the same four interviewers. The questions are easy. My friend told me they ask easy questions to make yo
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The initial communication was an email from the recruiter with a short written coding skills test. After this was evaluated, I had a phone interview with the hiring manager. He asked some questions about my engineering background and then asked me to
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesMarch 1, 2015I was approached by a recruiter who was interested in my profile and invited me to a hiring event. Before the interview was confirmed, I was asked to take an online technical screen. The technical screen was fairly difficult, with a time limit. The
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesDecember 1, 2013One non-technical phone interview from a recruiter. Four rounds of interviews for onsite. Three people are grouped together, interviewing with the same four interviewers. The questions are easy. My friend told me they ask easy questions to make yo
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesMay 1, 2008The initial communication was an email from the recruiter with a short written coding skills test. After this was evaluated, I had a phone interview with the hiring manager. He asked some questions about my engineering background and then asked me to
