Choosing between Three Teams at Microsoft

Varian Medical / Eng
OWdj42

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OWdj42
Mar 2, 2020 27 Comments

Hi Everyone,
I was fortunate enough to get offers from three different teams at Microsoft after interviews but am in a bit of a dilemma. The teams are as follows:

1) Identity Team. Based in Redmond, WA. During and after the interview I got the chance to interact with the Engineers and it seems like a good team to work for. They run the Azure AD services. From our conversations the stack is C#, JS. Did not start negotiating yet, but the recruiter gave away the salary information they want to start with: $123/100/30k. This is for level 60.

2) Onedrive Sharepoint Team (ODSP). Based in Redmond, WA. Do not know much about the work I will be doing and the recruiter hasn’t been very responsive. Level 60. Stack: C#

3) Open Source (Containers and Kubernetes). Based in Atlanta, GA. It is an interesting team and working with Open Source technologies. The skip manager is Brendan Burns (co founder of Kubernetes). Stack: Golang. Salary 15% off base and everything else same.

I am having a hardtime deciding between 1 and 3. Kinda hesitant regarding being remote from Redmond but the work sounds interesting. Any insights?

TC: 104k
YOE: 2

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  • Capgemini / Product
    HomeAwaSDE

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    Capgemini
    HomeAwaSDE
    You were part of hiring event
    Mar 2, 2020 4
  • If you want to stay at microsoft long term choose identity. It’s an org that has a fast promo velocity. Depending on which team in Identity you land in, the oncall can be tough.

    If you want to go to microsoft for a few years and then bounce to a better company then do kubernetes. The people at MS that I knew did open source for big projects got great offers externally which increased their comp.
    Mar 2, 2020 5
    • @Lifesad you can ask the manager how their oncall rotation is. If given the opportunity I would also ask to talk to one or a few of the engineers on the team to ask more about the wlb and oncall. Azure teams is a mixed bag, if you’re in core services or front facing products then oncall can be rough. There’s a few internal teams in Azure whose oncall is chill.
      Mar 3, 2020
    • Apple / Eng
      Lifesad

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      Lifesad
      I see, on average what is the on-call rotation like? Like do people find themselves on-call every other week? Or is it just once every 2 months or something like that?
      Mar 3, 2020
  • Amazon
    ColdFlame

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    ColdFlame
    When did you interview with the odsp team and how long did it take to hear back? I would go with azure.
    Mar 2, 2020 6
  • Verizon / Data
    GoogEsla

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    GoogEsla
    Identity
    Mar 2, 2020 0
  • Microsoft
    MSHero

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    MSHero
    I recently interviewed with the identity team internally.
    Seems like lot of growth and solving interesting problems
    Mar 2, 2020 1