Decent job with decent pay
Decent job with decent pay
- Work-life balance most likely depends on the team you are working with and how the PM plans.
- Promotions and bonuses vary a lot by team and org.
- MSFT is a PM-driven company, instead of a place where engineering rules.
- Work-life balance is ruined when PMs do bad planning.
- Spent 26 billion to buy LinkedIn without spending 1 billion to provide employees with free lunch.
- Hate self-hosting, which wastes lots of dev effort and engineering time.
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The company can be more transparent on PM work and let engineers drive the product.
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PMs don't care about the quality of code and only care about what's put on the table for director review. Give engineers more time and space to let the right thing happen.
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A corporate recruiter contacted me via email. After completing their OTS, I received an invitation to interview onsite in Redmond. The entire process took one month. It seems they want to hire as soon as possible. They extended an offer, which was
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesFebruary 1, 2024The interview process is pretty standard. The first round is a talk with the recruiter. Then, the second round is usually a technical screening. The final round is a four-round interview loop, typically including: * Two technical interviews * One
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2021Interview was pretty straightforward. The onsite had four rounds, with the last round being with a senior manager. The senior manager was actually pretty nice, and he even helped me figure out some things that I was having trouble with initially.
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesSeptember 1, 2019A corporate recruiter contacted me via email. After completing their OTS, I received an invitation to interview onsite in Redmond. The entire process took one month. It seems they want to hire as soon as possible. They extended an offer, which was
