New Company Reviews

The problems that you try to solve at Amazon are all state-of-the-art: software problems like scaling a huge distributed systems, artificial intelligence, personalized recommendations, web analytics and data mining, etc. All the skills I learned from Amazon are on great demand by the software...
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Well, before I start saying what I don't like about Microsoft, I'd give the fair amount of credit to the company. The pay and benefits at Microsoft is superb, and the Seattle is actually pretty great in terms of weather, traffic, and environment in general. So I shouldn't complain...
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Microsoft has had a very tense, serious culture since its founding. When I say uptight, I don't mean that you have to wear a shirt to go to work. The developers usually just wear jeans, shirts and sneakers to work. But the managers are the no-nonsense types. They hold meetings and make sure...
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