Microsoft L67 Engineering Manager seeking external opportunities in Seattle
I am L67 Engineering Manager in Microsoft with TC of 500K. I work in Office 365, and consider myself fairly knowledgeable on distributed technologies. I am looking for similar opportunities in Seattle/Bellevue area. Thinking of trying in FB, Oracle, Salesforce and Google. Perhaps try few companies in first phase, and others a little later. For the interview preparation, I am focusing on
1. Coding questions
2. System design questions
3. Behavioral questions
4. Going deep on key organizational and technical problems based on resume content
I have few questions
a. Is this level of coverage adequate for interviews?
b. What would be target level in FB – M1/M2/D1 and TC?
c. What to expect from Oracle cloud group in terms of TC?
d. Is Oracle cloud really going to be healthy in the next 5 years given AWS and Azure?
e. Is Salesforce a good choice to look for opportunities?
comments
Pack your bags.
Imagine the scenario where you pick a mid senior engineer from your team and make that person your manager or your skip manager or a partner immediately. Imagine how things will be in terms of long term thinking, thinking big and decision making- and that’s how it is here in Oracle. You have to drink the cool aid and be part of the “circle”. I am waiting to boomerang back to Amazon.
But really; the world needs fewer managers, not more. Go as an IC.