I got a recruiter reach out to me for the Microsoft Storage File System (SFS) division. Does anybody work in this team and could provide a better description of what this team does? What they might work on? Curious to know what type of things to prepare for from a technical stand point as well, such as what concepts might be important to know in general. #interview #microsoft #storage #file #system #team #jobs #help
Maybe this - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-files-introduction Ask about the on-call.
What do you mean by on call?
On-call. Pager duty. Most backend teams at the big tech companies have it. You typically go on call for several days to a week at a time. If there’s an incident, you have to wake up and fix it. Depending on the team, you could get paged like 3 times or like 30 times.
Windows or Azure storage? If the former, OMG I USED TO WORK THERE! It was a long time ago now but it was the best team I have ever worked for. What role and what sub team?
The role is for PM, but I don't know for what subteam. I'm thinking it's related to Azure storage.
I was a PM for Consumer Storage, so not Azure, but I think they've combined since. The team was pretty relaxed AFAIK, but at the time they expected all their PMs to be pretty technical and have a good grasp of low-level concepts. 90% of us had ECE degrees. If you like really low-level work and have some knowledge of drivers, even if not filesystems, you should be fine. Most people don't know much about filesystems before they joined. If you don't have a lot of relatively low-level knowledge then I would be a bit concerned. But if you are a quick learner and have good PM fundamentals and stakeholder management skills, I wouldn't worry. Good luck! I really enjoyed the work I did in storage, and no PM role ever gave me the same mix of technical ownership and PM ownership since. That's why I switched back to dev.