Ok place to work at for average compensation
Ok place to work at for average compensation
Good benefits. Large-scale systems. Nice food options at Redmond and great learning resources.
Lower than comparable compensation.
Career progression is very team-dependent.
Top-down politics can negatively impact careers. Make sure you play along and cut losses fast.
High workloads and expectations for average total compensation (TC).
Low-energy peers.
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2020I am from Europe. My first contact was through LinkedIn, followed by a short phone call, and then a non-technical screening via an online call. After that, I received an invitation for a flight to Dublin for one-day interviews. During that day, I was
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesMay 1, 2026I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. Technical interview: A LeetCode-style question on DSA. The question had to do with checking the number of palindromic substrings in a word. The interviewer was polite and professional. I had 30
