Is Microsoft's bar really this low?

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Jun 25, 2021 50 Comments

This month I interviewed multiple senior/principal engineers from msft looking for a senior frontend engineer role. They all said they worked with React and Typescript, with some of them being in msft for 10+ years. Yet, they somehow write awful code.

They were given an LC medium equivalent JS problem. Lots of typos, bad naming convention, defining global variables, not understanding closures, and even writing int i = 0 in their for loops.

Is Microsoft's engineering bar really this low?

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