Optimal Microsoft Start Date
Recently received an offer from Microsoft. I am thinking of starting in January/February 2020, compared to December 2019. Is this a good decision? Is there anything I need to keep in mind like bonuses/refreshers, or if its a good time of year to get started at a new company? Thanks!
Congratulations ! How was the on-site?
Very pleasant. LC easy-medium at least for me, some behavioral at the start. 1 system design interview. Interviewers were all very cool and friendly.
Thanks. Were they all Microsoft tagged?
Congrats fellow magneto
No special considerations. Congrats.
how fast did they give you the offer ?Like when did they confirm after onsite?and did they team match ?
team match was before interview. They said it could take 2 weeks or less to recieve an offer decision, but i found out within ~24 hours.
you got an offer or decision in 24 hours?I got a positive feedback from recruiter with my interview and then they mentioned about team matching and I have not heard back in a week.
Do you have any reason to not start immediately?
Definitely would like and could use a break for at least a few weeks/month. Been bouncing around different things with no chance to recover.
These were my breaks since 92: 94, 98, 04, 06, 07, 09, 15, 17 and 19. So in 27 years of school/work, I took 9 breaks (out of 27 possible). And I'm not dead. Yet.