Nice job, but boring
Nice job, but boring
Pay is good. I'm told the benefits are nice, too. Work can get pretty easy sometimes.
It's pretty boring, all told. My experience has very much been: they tell me what to do, and I do it.
I really hate my team's tech stack, too. I think I would literally be 1.5-2x more productive if I didn't have to fight/grope through our build system to accomplish stupidly basic tasks like adding unit tests and making sure DLLs end up in the right directories.
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A friend working at Microsoft as an intern asked me if I would be interested in an internship position, and I gave him my résumé. A few weeks later, I got an email from the university recruiter, and I scheduled a phone screen interview. Basically, I
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesOctober 1, 2015A friend working at Microsoft as an intern asked me if I would be interested in an internship position, and I gave him my résumé. A few weeks later, I got an email from the university recruiter, and I scheduled a phone screen interview. Basically, I
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesMay 1, 2017The interview process started with an HR person reaching out and conducting a phone screening. They asked mostly personality questions but ended the interview with a puzzle. The onsite interview lasted from 9 am to 4 pm on the Redmond campus. During
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2017One Skype interview with coding questions, followed by a full day of in-person interviews. There were six interviews in a row, each lasting 60-90 minutes, including a lunch interview. I received an offer via email two hours after finishing.
