Lots of cool technologies. Many leading products are developed at MS. Some teams value innovation, security, and quality, but not all.
Crowded place; can get easily lost there.
Incompetent managers.
The review system sucks big time.
The workplace can get very unfriendly because everybody fights for good reviews.
Try to understand people better.
Don't just copy other companies; foster innovation inside the company as well.
The review system is crap.
The standard hiring process involves a phone interview followed by an onsite interview. Interviewers were not very polite and seemed to have an attitude that they knew much better. One interviewer, after I wrote my code, told me I didn't need to te
I had an on-campus interview at college which went really badly, but somehow I was invited to an onsite. The onsite had four interviews, all of which featured data structures and algorithms questions. I received an email from the recruiter the next
I was flown in for the interview and stayed at a pretty decent hotel. The next day, I was taken to the interview site. There was a short intro session, followed by four different one-hour technical interviews with various managers. The interviews wer
The standard hiring process involves a phone interview followed by an onsite interview. Interviewers were not very polite and seemed to have an attitude that they knew much better. One interviewer, after I wrote my code, told me I didn't need to te
I had an on-campus interview at college which went really badly, but somehow I was invited to an onsite. The onsite had four interviews, all of which featured data structures and algorithms questions. I received an email from the recruiter the next
I was flown in for the interview and stayed at a pretty decent hotel. The next day, I was taken to the interview site. There was a short intro session, followed by four different one-hour technical interviews with various managers. The interviews wer