Great place to work unless you have a bad manager
Great place to work unless you have a bad manager
Super medical benefits.
Chance to move to a different group after a couple of years. If you work in Redmond, this benefit is very attractive.
Lots of smart people.
You will get your own private office room (you might need to wait 1-3 years sometimes). I was lucky to get my own office after 6 months, and having that privacy was great for focus.
A bad manager can ruin you. In my case, my manager in the second group was over-demanding, and it made life difficult.
Bureaucracy can be a damper, depending on your group.
Move fast and be bold, like Google. Come up with inspired products, like Apple.
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Software Development Engineer
I dropped my resume at the Microsoft booth at a career fair. I received an email asking me to indicate which of the listed timeslots were possible for a phone interview. I also filled out a form detailing my preferred position and development layer.
Software Development Engineer
Phone screening with basic behavioral questions and some brain teasers. Four 45-minute onsite interviews. The questions are not as hard as Google, but they do want you to run test cases, including tests for corner cases, large inputs, and invalid in
Software Development Engineer
One screening call, then flew out to Redmond for on-site. The interview day comprised of four interviews in the afternoon after a large group lunch. Was asked a number of questions about code optimization, array manipulation, some SQL stuff, and then
Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesDecember 1, 2011I dropped my resume at the Microsoft booth at a career fair. I received an email asking me to indicate which of the listed timeslots were possible for a phone interview. I also filled out a form detailing my preferred position and development layer.
Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesDecember 1, 2015Phone screening with basic behavioral questions and some brain teasers. Four 45-minute onsite interviews. The questions are not as hard as Google, but they do want you to run test cases, including tests for corner cases, large inputs, and invalid in
Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesOctober 15, 2015One screening call, then flew out to Redmond for on-site. The interview day comprised of four interviews in the afternoon after a large group lunch. Was asked a number of questions about code optimization, array manipulation, some SQL stuff, and then
