A Good Place to Start Your Career
A Good Place to Start Your Career
- You have great coworkers to learn from.
- Good 401K and health benefits.
- Company is cooling down technologically.
- Company is losing significant amounts of talent in mid-level and senior bands, while attracting mostly junior people.
- Being a very mature company, promotions are seldom.
- Work-life balance has vanished as the company is focused on services.
- Salaries are not adequately indexed with inflation: after 6 years with Microsoft and 3 level-ups, I received less valuable compensation than a fresh employee out of school with less responsibilities and experience.
- Build an internal culture; the six Microsoft core values are all, but I forgot.
- Improve leadership in the company, having direct, solid communication with regular employees, thus inspiring them.
- Implement step-up compensation to be competitive with Amazon, Facebook, and Google, and go beyond, thus compensating for decelerating overall company speed and growth.
- Do not treat longer-tenured employees as a given.
- Attract and retain talent.
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Software Development Engineer
1. Apply online. 2. Receive an email from HR to schedule a phone screen. 3. Finish the phone screen. 4. If passed, receive an email from HR to schedule an onsite interview. 5. Attend four or five rounds of interviews. A lunch will be provided if the
Software Development Engineer
I applied online in August and had a phone interview. We talked about my past experience, and I was given a simple brain teaser and a design question. The interview mostly focused on my work and project experience. After waiting 4-5 weeks, they info
Software Development Engineer
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
Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJuly 1, 20181. Apply online. 2. Receive an email from HR to schedule a phone screen. 3. Finish the phone screen. 4. If passed, receive an email from HR to schedule an onsite interview. 5. Attend four or five rounds of interviews. A lunch will be provided if the
Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesOctober 1, 2014I applied online in August and had a phone interview. We talked about my past experience, and I was given a simple brain teaser and a design question. The interview mostly focused on my work and project experience. After waiting 4-5 weeks, they info
Software Development Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesDecember 1, 2009I 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
