A "safe" job
A "safe" job
- Pay and benefits are okay.
- The company isn't going to go belly-up anytime soon.
- There are some real "world-class" technical problems to solve.
- Pay and benefits are only okay for the size of the company.
- Work-life balance is highly dependent on your specific team.
- Technical problems also include working on legacy code that no one touches until they're forced to by some kind of policy review.
I see tons of examples that demonstrate the truism: "a measure ceases to be a good measurement when it becomes a goal."
KPIs like "no policy violations in code" become "push fixes/hacks and make the violations go away on the report."
Sometimes these types of issues are indications that there are gaps in processes, not that certain teams are just "bad" at their jobs.
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2012It was pretty long and kind of a hard process, but if you know what to say and do, you will have a good interview. Try to practice your thoughts before the interview. Know what you can do and can't do.
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesMarch 17, 2026The difficulty was moderate. You should do LeetCode tagged Microsoft questions. They generally ask from the most recent Microsoft tagged questions. I applied without a referral. There was a technical screening with a hiring manager. Then there were D
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesDecember 1, 2015I was contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn. Within a month, my phone screening was scheduled. The phone screening was 45 minutes with one person. Soon after that, I had my in-person interview in Seattle. There were 4+1 rounds of interviews: * F
