MSFTing or not MSFTing
MSFTing or not MSFTing
- Work/Life balance, Great Benefits, Flexible Work Hours
- Friendly environment, nice international culture
- Microsoft recently started accepting OpenSource and Linux as a reality. Windows 10 native support for Ubuntu Bash and Microsoft's contribution on GitHub are examples of the new trend.
- Microsoft is serious about its cloud business.
- MSFT rewards loyalty; if you stay, you will get promotion, bonus, etc.
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Microsoft's open-source culture is still in its infancy. A lot of the company's time is wasted reinventing the wheel due to the lack of a proper culture for reusing what is already available as a third-party library. Hopefully, this will get better over time, but at a slow pace.
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It is harder to make your contribution visible due to the nature of big companies.
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If you end up working in old product teams (e.g., Office), you may end up maintaining old code that you inherit, and so you won't learn many new technologies.
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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
The process includes a phone interview, followed by an in-person Interview Loop. The duration of the in-person interview is on average about 6 hours. It covers: * Algorithmic skills * OO design * Data Structures * Unit Testing
Software Engineer II
- Phone interview: Explained my background for about 10 minutes. Then the interviewer asked one coding question. Coding was done using a shared editor. The problem was about a simple tree manipulation algorithm. - Onsite Interview: Five rounds plus
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
Software Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJune 1, 2011The process includes a phone interview, followed by an in-person Interview Loop. The duration of the in-person interview is on average about 6 hours. It covers: * Algorithmic skills * OO design * Data Structures * Unit Testing
Software Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesSeptember 1, 2015- Phone interview: Explained my background for about 10 minutes. Then the interviewer asked one coding question. Coding was done using a shared editor. The problem was about a simple tree manipulation algorithm. - Onsite Interview: Five rounds plus
