Opportunities are here if you look for them
Opportunities are here if you look for them
Having changed two teams, I've found a team that:
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has a lot of freedom in product decisions
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allows us to choose what technology we are allowed to use
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has a generally accepting culture, where people genuinely try to be less biased
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offers good benefits
- Slow decision-making process. Not all decisions should go through PMs and management; let us move faster than the slowest PM.
- Lack of mentorship. Having looked for a few years, I have not been able to find a mentor.
Sometimes it is better to focus less on the process and more on the product/people. TFS will still be there when we are done creating. No need to manage us like we are a construction company. Agile means sometimes we don't know what the cost is three months in advance.
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Screening call followed by three technical interviews and one behavioral interview. All technical interviews started with one values question, and then we jumped into LC-style problem-solving. The process is language-agnostic. Design questions might
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. There were 4 rounds in total: - 3 coding rounds: Behavioral questions and diving deep into my resume, with 1 or 2 coding questions (LeetCode Easy-Medium). - 1 System Design round: Started off with behavior
Software Engineer II
Standard intro to CS material, algorithms analysis, and rough systems design. A lot of interview questions will test your CS fundamentals for intro-level jobs. There's nothing about big system design or architecture except in rare cases. Know your
Software Engineer II
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Software Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesMarch 17, 2026I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. There were 4 rounds in total: - 3 coding rounds: Behavioral questions and diving deep into my resume, with 1 or 2 coding questions (LeetCode Easy-Medium). - 1 System Design round: Started off with behavior
Software Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesDecember 1, 2012Standard intro to CS material, algorithms analysis, and rough systems design. A lot of interview questions will test your CS fundamentals for intro-level jobs. There's nothing about big system design or architecture except in rare cases. Know your
