My brother got an offer at MS in the core services Engineering team as a new college grad. Is it a good team? He does have offers from other companies but keen on leaning towards MS coz of its brand name.
Core services is Msit, the most hated and probably the worst place to join at msft. Most of it is IT work and not product development. If he has other offers please consider those more seriously.
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I also recieved the offer for sde 2 position
Run!
Thanks for the help! Will definitely ask him not to join MS
Ask if there’s another team
Is it core services in wdg?
No
I worked in Core services team and I really enjoyed it. Great work life balance and competitive salary. People from outside are dumbasses who think somehow there work is the most important one.
Lol
What’s the salary range for SE-II?
No
Nothing to worry about, your brother can just transfer to another org or team if he’s not happy with core services. People move around to different teams all the time.
As far as I know , CSE / MSIT is like any other IT services company job .. some units within CSE are great and you get to working the latest tech while in some ofthemit may be possible that you would be maintaining ASP 1.1 . The amount of work is less than CSS or Consulting hence you have way better work-life balance and your pay is really good.. However since people have ample amount of time apart from the actual work , politics and bitching is rampant and more than any other org . But will tell you something .if you are a college grad , I would suggest you to join it .. just make sure your brother does not get caught up in politics and stuff.Uses the time to learn new stuff. If I was a college grad and I had to take this job , I would take it , not because its Brand name but the sheer amount of learning resources and good amount of time I would get access to while maintaining a great work life balance . I see it as a paid learning program. Where you can learn new things like blockchain , AI, ML etc. Anything that can help me survive the next decade. Technology is fast changing.. it's an opportunity.. :) All the best ..
I doubt Microsoft can compete in the salary department. Should consider other companies.
They have a great leader for sure