Good, then bad
Good, then bad
Great teams spread across the company, but they are hidden gems.
There's still a lot of old-school senior/principal people that are fish out of water as the company transitions to services.
It's hard to generalize, but cross-team hiring needs to be considered and planned more carefully. A client principal manager from a client can't really adapt that quickly to a services team. Especially with the people that follow the manager from the client, it gets very demoralizing when people aren't valued for their skills in an area of expertise but rather for their 'titles'.
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My interview consisted of three one-on-one interviews. Recruiters tell excuses. I heard from multiple other interviewees that their fourth interviewer was at home sick, but really this means they didn't make the cut. I think they have a policy of
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesJuly 1, 2009My interview consisted of three one-on-one interviews. Recruiters tell excuses. I heard from multiple other interviewees that their fourth interviewer was at home sick, but really this means they didn't make the cut. I think they have a policy of
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2008Microsoft has smart engineers, and they want to work with other smart engineers. They mainly test your ability to design clever algorithms on a whiteboard under pressure. When you are writing up your answer, the key is to just keep talking; tell the
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesMarch 1, 2015First, there was a phone interview. A couple of months after that, they flew me into Redmond, WA for a day of interviews. I had four interviews, all of which were mostly technical. One interview was conducted over lunch.
