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Cheap, Competitive pay rates for Contractors

Software Test Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Microsoft for 9 years
December 13, 2012
Bellevue, Washington
3.0
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Pros

Free coffee made from real beans. Lots of smart people, and top talent to be around. Inspiring. You'll meet some of the most talented, driven, aggressively smart, and most knowledgeable people in the industry.

Except for the nepotists.

Cons

Unnecessarily competitive in a weird way, can be intimidating, lots of nerds, very narrow focus, but highly detailed. The nepotism ruins it all. Even hiring friends over another that's more passionate about the industry is what holds Microsoft back in the dust of Apple and Google. LOL

Advice to Management

Leave the Harvard Business formalities at home. This is the new frontier we're trying to create, not perpetuate textbook methodologies.

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