Reviews please. How are career prospects here? Will my skill sets be obsolete after working in this area for sometime?
I want to cancel Mac office subscription and Skype monthly pay. ( I did not use Skype for some years, but cannot find s quick way to cancel the subscription. It is a few dollars and might not worth of my time. Now with $11 more, I have more motivation) I logged into my Microsoft account and cannot ...Read more
For example, Intel uses Skype/Outlook for messaging/emails/contacts, and Office suite for docs/spreadsheets/presentations. What do companies like Apple/Google/Facebook use? Slack?? iMessage??
Just wondering if anybody has ranges for an Office 365 Engineer Azure, Skype, and everything on-between. This would be for the midwest.
Skype will kill Telecoms! Amazon will kill Walmart! Azure will kill AWS! Google Docs will kill MS Office! Uber will kill Taxis! Waymo will kill Uber! Amazon Deliveries will kill UPS & Fedex! Musk will kill Twitter! Feels like these types of Blind posts are mostly for Blind points...and attention. R...Read more
Has anyone gone through the hiring for SDE at the office in Prague recently? (Teams/Skype) Is it a virtual onsite now? How many rounds for SDE 2? #swe #hiring #prague
Do you book conference rooms? Give the interview in your own office? Use work computer? How do you manage skype pings(if any) during the interview? What times are best to schedule phone interviews?
I mean, in terms of projects it looks like most of interesting stuff is in US. In Europe they have app dynamic, office 365, teams, Skype. Where is Halo done? Where is Xbox, Cortana, all the fun stuff done?
Internal websites, employee tools, Office 365, Yammer, Skype, VSTS, Azure Portal, etc. They’re all so BAD. It hurts. I want to stab out my eyeballs anytime I try to do something simple. How is it all so buggy and terribly designed? Why? Aren’t there tens of thousands of engineers? Doesn’t upper ma...Read more
So, MS just announced they're gonna switch/rename their corporate communicator solution yet *again*: First we had Microsoft Office Communicator. Then we got Microsoft Lync. Then this was changed to Skype For Business. NOW they scrap it again and it'll be (a part of) MS Office Teams. What will be c...Read more
European Startup -- India Office. Cleared online coding test , Skype interview.. some technical director asks me questions on how system is designed, No technical questions. Asks me for onsite. The same guy asks me the same questions. Says project is not vast enough. Still no technical questions and...Read more
I have an interview coming up in a few days. My personal laptop is old and runs windows 10. It crashes randomly with blue screen, so I dont trust it. I am planning to use my office laptop for the interview. Has anyone done that? What are the things I should take care of? I just want to be careful an...Read more
Why am I doing this? If you get hired, I’ll get a really damn nice referral bonus :) Location: Europe (can give more specific location in DMs) YoE: Any, even early career Offering relocation and open to fully remote (within Europe) A lot of interesting projects/teams such as Skype, MS Teams, Offi...Read more
I’ve never been laid off but have seen coworkers get let go: The company (not WePay) was laying off 1000 software engineers scattered across 4 locations. They started with the east coast then slowly moved towards west coast. I was based in the west coast so our layoffs happend on a Friday. My proje...Read more
I used to work at a bank before joining msft. At the bank i was part of and honestly at other banks, it was totally normal to never have all team members in the same office or same location. All communication was through Teams, Zoom, Skype, webex and were virtual first. But in faang type compani...Read more
I’ve been out of college and working for three years now and haven’t been laid off yet. I have seen friends and family get laid off. At my last employer they laid off 15,000 people by tapping peoples shoulders and told them to come into a meeting room with HR. I would usually be the first one in th...Read more
I’m wondering Airbnb only hire backend engineers with exactly matched experience. Actually, I just got rejected from another unicorn company. The recruiter told me I did coding and system design interviews well but the hiring manager concerned that I don’t have any backend server or distributed exp...Read more
Hi! I was in the process of interviewing for a job that I wanted pretty badly, and it seemed like overall my onterviews went pretty well. after my third skype interview i hadnt heard back for a week. just now the hiring manager let me know that because of people being out of the office the process ...Read more
I'm a new grad and need to approach folks to understand the system that have built for the last 4-5 years. To some level I'm dependent on them for the context/business/tech. But I see some folks just maintain their availability status as "private" and then they barely reply... Wtf!! Been 2 hrs of ...Read more
Does anyone know of a list that has been put together of Banks that are offering Remote or Hybrid positions? If not, please post the name of the Bank and Remote or Hybrid in the comments. Now that many big companies are forcing employees to come back to “Work from Work” I can only imagine a ton of...Read more