Fantastic workplace for recent college grads; major glass ceilings for mid-career workers
Fantastic workplace for recent college grads; major glass ceilings for mid-career workers
Pro-customer focus, competitiveness, and an excellent ability to develop young talent. Highly maternal/paternal, with a socialistic style of caring for employees.
Ruthless politics once on a dev lead level; cross-divisional animosity; a curious inability to hammer out a reasonably fair comp/ranking and rating system.
A lot of my friends left Microsoft out of frustration with the review system, with no other complaints. Get the performance management right, and this puppy will keep on going for a long time.
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) II
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) II
On-campus booth, quick chat. Then I did an on-campus, in-person interview. We discussed my CV and previous projects for a while. I was then asked one question, which wasn't very hard. Next, I completed a full day, in-house interview in Redmond. I w
Software Development Engineer (SDE) II
I was contacted by a recruiter for a career role at MSFT HQ. After talking to the recruiter, there was a phone screen where I had to write two functions, before they asked me to go onsite. The onsite interview process did not take long. I talked to
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesAugust 9, 2024Interview Stages: * Rec Scree * Phone Screen * Onsite (LC, System Design, Manager, LC) The interview was for a specific team, so many low-level (C, C++, and OS) questions were asked.
Software Development Engineer (SDE) II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2015On-campus booth, quick chat. Then I did an on-campus, in-person interview. We discussed my CV and previous projects for a while. I was then asked one question, which wasn't very hard. Next, I completed a full day, in-house interview in Redmond. I w
Software Development Engineer (SDE) II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJuly 1, 2015I was contacted by a recruiter for a career role at MSFT HQ. After talking to the recruiter, there was a phone screen where I had to write two functions, before they asked me to go onsite. The onsite interview process did not take long. I talked to
