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Worked on archaic legacy code with really awesome, incredibly smart, passionate, and dedicated people

Software Development Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Microsoft for 2 years
February 22, 2014
Redmond, Washington
4.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

The people: smart, passionate, interesting.

The perks: events, fitness benefit, Prime Card, Orca Card, pay.

The location: close to Seattle, beautiful campus.

The company: cool new things, also industry staples, tons of opportunities and niches.

Cons

Many older products involve tackling a lot of legacy code and trying to read the minds of developers past. This is conducive to developing highly specialized skills, but not necessarily to more widely applicable technical growth.

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