Proud to Work for Microsoft, Not Sure I Will Survive Long
Proud to Work for Microsoft, Not Sure I Will Survive Long
- Pay
- Benfits
- Smart people
- Brand name
- Increasingly accepting of work-from-home
Developers have to re-interview (same process as external candidate, whiteboard problems and all) to move to a different team within the company.
Performance evaluation is a "What have you done for me today?" exercise that gets tiring to go through.
Re-orgs. Teams are always getting spliced, moved, merged, or axed. There is constant fear of losing one's job or landing in an undesirable role.
Make developers feel like their company wants to keep them and believes they have the talent to work on any team that has a position for their job title.
That's the way it is at other big companies like Facebook and Amazon.
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The initial call with the recruiter was brief. He simply asked about my experience. I told him about my past, which I felt was overqualified, but they turned me down without explanation. Pretty typical.
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I sent my resume to my university recruiter and interviewed at my university. It was a 30-minute interview consisting of one coding question. I heard back a week later and interviewed at Redmond, WA two weeks after that. The on-site interview consis
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A 45-minute phone interview with some basic questions like puzzles and design. Then I got onsite. There were five one-hour coding interviews in total with the specific team. The last round was with the hiring manager. He was really awesome, so I
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesSeptember 9, 2023The initial call with the recruiter was brief. He simply asked about my experience. I told him about my past, which I felt was overqualified, but they turned me down without explanation. Pretty typical.
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2017I sent my resume to my university recruiter and interviewed at my university. It was a 30-minute interview consisting of one coding question. I heard back a week later and interviewed at Redmond, WA two weeks after that. The on-site interview consis
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesDecember 1, 2014A 45-minute phone interview with some basic questions like puzzles and design. Then I got onsite. There were five one-hour coding interviews in total with the specific team. The last round was with the hiring manager. He was really awesome, so I
