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Great Place to Work
The salary is fantastic, the benefits are top-notch, and the products you work on truly do change the world, so it is easy to find meaning in your work. The people you meet here are genuine and very intelligent, which is great considering how much time you spend with them.
Work/life balance is a little tough at times. Given the magnitude of bugs or failures in a product like Windows, fixing them is a process that will result in many late nights and giving up your weekends.
Management is often so bogged down with balancing engineering and business goals that they will sometimes be disconnected with the product and the time it takes to perform certain tasks. This is something both manager and IC should work on, but it is still a challenge.
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Software Development Engineer
This is college recruiting. The first interview was at college and lasted about an hour. It involved one coding problem about sorting, where I had to write pseudocode on paper. It wasn't too difficult, but the pressure was on timing. Then, I was ask
Software Development Engineer
I live in Australia. First, I applied for SDE at Microsoft and waited for almost one month to get a telephone interview. Two months after that, I received an email asking me to attend an interview in Singapore. In Singapore, I had four rounds of int
Software Development Engineer
The process involved a first online test and then four onsite interviews. The process was smooth and the questions were simple. The interviewers were looking for very clean code, and that is where I struggled.
Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesDecember 1, 2011This is college recruiting. The first interview was at college and lasted about an hour. It involved one coding problem about sorting, where I had to write pseudocode on paper. It wasn't too difficult, but the pressure was on timing. Then, I was ask
Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2011I live in Australia. First, I applied for SDE at Microsoft and waited for almost one month to get a telephone interview. Two months after that, I received an email asking me to attend an interview in Singapore. In Singapore, I had four rounds of int
Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesFebruary 23, 2016The process involved a first online test and then four onsite interviews. The process was smooth and the questions were simple. The interviewers were looking for very clean code, and that is where I struggled.
