Politics, slow-moving, crappy
Politics, slow-moving, crappy
Large scale, smart people. There is a word minimum, so many more words. Why is there a minimum? Words, words, words, words! La la la...
There was lots of in-fighting. I worked on boring projects, with lots of planning compared to the amount of code I got to write. There were also lots of meetings. One of my projects was scrapped because they had to re-assign my testers to another project, even though I had completed the coding work.
Needs stronger directions from the very top, less independent direction from the too many levels of management.
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Software Development Engineer
Initial screening: * Some behavioral questions. * How many lines of code have you written in your previous job? * Sorting algorithm in recursive and iterative approaches.
Software Development Engineer
Two extremely tough phone interviews. The coding problems were very tough, but I managed to do well. Onsite: 4 interviews: One interview had extremely easy questions. One interview had very open-ended questions. I could not figure out what was wan
Software Development Engineer
The interview process lasted 8 hours, ending with a 1:1 interview with the hiring manager. I felt I did well overall, but no offer was made. Know your different types of data storage and how to "dumb down" your technical knowledge.
Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesDecember 1, 2010Initial screening: * Some behavioral questions. * How many lines of code have you written in your previous job? * Sorting algorithm in recursive and iterative approaches.
Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJune 1, 2013Two extremely tough phone interviews. The coding problems were very tough, but I managed to do well. Onsite: 4 interviews: One interview had extremely easy questions. One interview had very open-ended questions. I could not figure out what was wan
Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesDecember 1, 2010The interview process lasted 8 hours, ending with a 1:1 interview with the hiring manager. I felt I did well overall, but no offer was made. Know your different types of data storage and how to "dumb down" your technical knowledge.
