GCP to Microsoft CSE(commercial software engineering)
Got asked by a recruiter, is this a good move? Want to know what’s the CSE culture, work, future...etc
Microsoft zFVl36 May 12, 2021
No
Microsoft papacloud May 14, 2021
It's pretty bad since the last year. Engineering atrophy is a huge concern here. SWEs are not developing any real code. Most of it is yaml. The recent trend is a ton of devs are leaving CSE but as PMs in product groups because they can't crack the interviews for internal moves. Joining CSE now would be a career suicide.
State Farm qkj776 Oct 11, 2021
Would you mind elaborating more? Have an onsite coming up, I have good impression with previous interviewers but now I'm concerned.
Microsoft papacloud Oct 11, 2021
DM me if you have any specific questions. I'm leaving CSE next week as well.
Cse is not part of engineering btw. They are dev teams under sales that focus on demos and some engineering works for select customers. It's a pretty good org.
Isn’t CSE an offshoot of CSEO formerly MSIT?
No, CSEO is core services Engineering Operations, they never worked for select customers. They worked internally on Microsoft sales, Finance and compliance systems. CSE is something completely different than CSEO