Good Pay, Slow Impact
Good Pay, Slow Impact
Microsoft is a great deal, overall, for software engineers. The pay is quite decent, and the work/life balance is usually quite good. Sure, there are crunch times once in a while, but more or less, most of the year will be 40-50 hour weeks with decent perks.
The main problem as a dev is that it can often be very hard to see what impact you are having on the organization. Products can take 6 months to 3 years to ship, and a lot of the time is spent fixing bugs or in meetings.
Lots has changed.
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesOctober 1, 2016Applied at a campus info session. Secured an on-campus interview that lasted 30 minutes. Received an invitation for an onsite interview the business day after. Scheduled the onsite interview for a month later. Completed 4 rounds of interviews. Each
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