Solid coding in a varied but siloed environment
Solid coding in a varied but siloed environment
Tons of within-company opportunities, lots of data to work with. You can find great people, and your work affects millions and millions of people.
Bureaucratic engineering practices lag industry standards in many teams. The organization is anything but lean; there are plenty of leeches.
Find a way, any way, to get rid of the bottom 20% without hurting morale.
Stop growing if that's what's causing lax hiring.
Communicate shareholder value goals all the way down to the base, and encourage quantitative thinking about scenarios instead of fuzzy story-telling.
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An inside friend submitted my resume, and the process went smoothly. I had a phone interview where I was asked a simple coding question (something to reverse a string in some way; it was too long ago to remember). Then, I had on-site interviews fro
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesMarch 1, 2008An inside friend submitted my resume, and the process went smoothly. I had a phone interview where I was asked a simple coding question (something to reverse a string in some way; it was too long ago to remember). Then, I had on-site interviews fro
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2012Submitted resume online during campus recruiting in March-April 2012. Received a one-on-one campus interview with positive feedback. Later received notice of a chance to do an onsite interview. However, it was too late for a Summer 2012 internship
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesApril 1, 2012I was contacted by a recruiter from Microsoft by email to set up some time for phone screening sessions. I had a phone interview round, and questions were basically about previous project experience and current role & interests. Couple of questions o
