Microsoft as Workplace
Microsoft as Workplace
I spent a few years in Bing, learning from arguably some of the brightest folks in the industry about distributed systems and application development. I would say it's a really good place to learn technical prowess in different areas of the software industry.
I feel that the review system is sometimes more or less solely dependent on manager feedback. There is no real accounting for what your peers think about you as a contributing member of the team.
Peer reviews are sort of just a formality, and ultimately, the manager decides everything.
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The interview process was long, with moderately difficult questions, approximately Codeforces C level difficulty. Interviewers cared more about soft skills and the ability to reason outside the box, such as how one would change the question to make
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I applied online and emailed the university recruiter. My application was expedited to onsite due to having a competing offer deadline and passing the phone screen in the previous year. There were four onsite interviews, all a mix of technical and b
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Awful interview. Even if you answer the questions correctly, they still end up rejecting you because they probably didn't have an open position to begin with. One thing I would say is that I made it to the fifth round and answered all of the questio
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesSeptember 1, 2018The interview process was long, with moderately difficult questions, approximately Codeforces C level difficulty. Interviewers cared more about soft skills and the ability to reason outside the box, such as how one would change the question to make
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesDecember 5, 2019I applied online and emailed the university recruiter. My application was expedited to onsite due to having a competing offer deadline and passing the phone screen in the previous year. There were four onsite interviews, all a mix of technical and b
Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesFebruary 1, 2019Awful interview. Even if you answer the questions correctly, they still end up rejecting you because they probably didn't have an open position to begin with. One thing I would say is that I made it to the fifth round and answered all of the questio
