Big company, big momentum, set in the old ways
Big company, big momentum, set in the old ways
- Numerous opportunities to work on a variety of projects, technologies, and ideas.
- Great C-suite leadership, especially Satya Nadella and Phil Spencer.
- Bright minds and friendly people.
- Azure is a great product.
- Excellent benefits.
- Bureaucratic and extremely slow. You will face resistance trying to work across team boundaries.
- Middle management culture focused primarily on how they are perceived by their higher ups.
- Customer obsession is talked about a lot, but not actually practiced. Windows 10 and 11 are prime examples.
- These cultural problems are deeply rooted, and middle management stubbornly holds on to their "old ways."
- Embrace the discomfort of owning failures instead of ignoring them, especially when talking to your higher-ups.
- Actually listen to customers instead of trying to force things on them.
- Resist the false comfort of bureaucracy.
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It was one round, two interviews: one technical and one behavioral. It took about a month to get the interview request and a week to hear back. The behavioral round also had some minimal technical questions.
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I got a referral from the TNT program, which allowed me to skip the phone screen and other interviews. I got to the final round and had back-to-back interviews with a Software Engineer and a Product Manager. Both interviews were mostly behavioral, wi
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 21, 2025Very straightforward, two back-to-back thirty-minute technical interviews that had a combination of LeetCode easy and medium questions, along with some behavioral questions that were sprinkled in there.
Software Engineering Intern
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 20, 2025It was one round, two interviews: one technical and one behavioral. It took about a month to get the interview request and a week to hear back. The behavioral round also had some minimal technical questions.
SWE Intern
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 4, 2025I got a referral from the TNT program, which allowed me to skip the phone screen and other interviews. I got to the final round and had back-to-back interviews with a Software Engineer and a Product Manager. Both interviews were mostly behavioral, wi
