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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1. String Operations: StrCmp() 2. Reverse the words in a string. 3. Binary Search Trees: Least Common Ancestor, Binary Search Delete operation. 4. Dictionary problem. 5. How do you design Malloc()? 6. More on previous projects (about Windbg & Ke
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The whole process was pretty swift. There was a first interview in college, after which they offered me an on-site interview. They were pretty flexible with scheduling the interview and also took care of travel and hotel expenses. The actual intervi
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After submitting a resume through the school career office, I was invited to an on-campus interview where general questions (e.g., why do you want to come to Microsoft, your background) were asked. I was then invited to Seattle for a full-day on-sit
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesFebruary 1, 20081. String Operations: StrCmp() 2. Reverse the words in a string. 3. Binary Search Trees: Least Common Ancestor, Binary Search Delete operation. 4. Dictionary problem. 5. How do you design Malloc()? 6. More on previous projects (about Windbg & Ke
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesDecember 1, 2010The whole process was pretty swift. There was a first interview in college, after which they offered me an on-site interview. They were pretty flexible with scheduling the interview and also took care of travel and hotel expenses. The actual intervi
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2009After submitting a resume through the school career office, I was invited to an on-campus interview where general questions (e.g., why do you want to come to Microsoft, your background) were asked. I was then invited to Seattle for a full-day on-sit
