Challenging, interesting, will eventually eat you alive
Challenging, interesting, will eventually eat you alive
Working on the cutting edge with bright people from many cultures.
Contributing to products used by millions of people.
Side projects and ideas are encouraged.
Eats your life. Addictive.
Stack ranking rewards friends of managers.
Every two or three years, you probably need to change jobs/teams if your reviews have started going lower.
Ruins you for working at most other companies.
Stop grading on a curve. This causes high churn.
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Software Engineer Intern
Very straightforward, two back-to-back thirty-minute technical interviews that had a combination of LeetCode easy and medium questions, along with some behavioral questions that were sprinkled in there.
Software Engineering Intern
It was one round, two interviews: one technical and one behavioral. It took about a month to get the interview request and a week to hear back. The behavioral round also had some minimal technical questions.
SWE Intern
I got a referral from the TNT program, which allowed me to skip the phone screen and other interviews. I got to the final round and had back-to-back interviews with a Software Engineer and a Product Manager. Both interviews were mostly behavioral, wi
Software Engineer Intern
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 21, 2025Very straightforward, two back-to-back thirty-minute technical interviews that had a combination of LeetCode easy and medium questions, along with some behavioral questions that were sprinkled in there.
Software Engineering Intern
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 20, 2025It was one round, two interviews: one technical and one behavioral. It took about a month to get the interview request and a week to hear back. The behavioral round also had some minimal technical questions.
SWE Intern
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 4, 2025I got a referral from the TNT program, which allowed me to skip the phone screen and other interviews. I got to the final round and had back-to-back interviews with a Software Engineer and a Product Manager. Both interviews were mostly behavioral, wi
