Nice People, Brutal Stack Ranking
Nice People, Brutal Stack Ranking
Relatively laid-back working hours. People are usually nice. But I heard this really depends on teams. I have friends in some teams that have brutal hours, but their teams generally get more opportunities for promotion. So I think this is fair.
Stack ranking in the annual review process is brutal. No matter what, they will pick 20% of employees to give bad ratings to.
I hope the stack ranking can be removed.
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I had a phone interview where they generally screened if I was a better fit for SDET, SDE, or PM. After a month, I was told that I got to the next round. They flew me out to Seattle for a Super Day. There, I had four technical interviews.
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I was contacted by a recruiter. She led me to believe that she worked at Microsoft. That was not true. I came to find out that a "v-" in front of the email address means vendor. I was asked standard technical questions and some problem-solving ques
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It took a day. There were 3-4 interviews with different people. All questions were technical.
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesMarch 1, 2014I had a phone interview where they generally screened if I was a better fit for SDET, SDE, or PM. After a month, I was told that I got to the next round. They flew me out to Seattle for a Super Day. There, I had four technical interviews.
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2012I was contacted by a recruiter. She led me to believe that she worked at Microsoft. That was not true. I came to find out that a "v-" in front of the email address means vendor. I was asked standard technical questions and some problem-solving ques
Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2011It took a day. There were 3-4 interviews with different people. All questions were technical.
