I have interviews with the visual studio team and the economics team in a few weeks time. SDE2 level position. Was wondering how these teams are viewed internally? Was told visual studio is part of Azure, a definite growth area, but unless I'm mistaken visual studio is a desktop software and not cloud yes? Also economist team is situated in AI&R ,which I hear is good growth organization. Trying to get a feeler if it's a good place for SDE since it appears the team is lighter on the software engineering side, but maybe I'm wrong?
VS is a big org with both desktop and cloud offerings. Much of office now uses VSO the online version of VS. I know several people there who have had very good career growth. I have no idea what the economist team is . Air just had a big reorg recently and lost part of its charter. There is a lot of interesting stuff there but I'm not sure what they'll do with an sde ii or whatever.
Anyone has interactions with the economists team (AI&R), curious to know the type of work and level of impact in the organization. Thanks.
Depends on where in Visual Studio. They have lots of tools for e.g. Azure management (you need to deploy to Azure even from desktop VS) and infra (subscriptions). IMO it's a strong org. I wouldn't care much about exact EVP Visual Studio is under. MS is a country of reorg. No stability here.