Decent pay, bad work-life balance, shady treatment of employees
Decent pay, bad work-life balance, shady treatment of employees
Microsoft's benefits are fantastic; it's hard to find another company that has better.
Tells employees they're committed to providing better work-life balances, but doesn't do anything helpful to ensure that's achievable. Instead, it provides tight deadlines and unreal expectations.
The environment is extremely toxic due to terrible internal corporate politics. It's difficult to trust coworkers and management.
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Engineering Service Engineer II
If your application passes technical screening, you meet for an informational with the hiring manager. If that goes well, you meet with some of the team on an ad hoc basis. If that goes well, you are asked back for a "gauntlet" style interview. On t
Software Engineer Intern
Very 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
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.
Engineering Service Engineer II
Bellevue, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2011If your application passes technical screening, you meet for an informational with the hiring manager. If that goes well, you meet with some of the team on an ad hoc basis. If that goes well, you are asked back for a "gauntlet" style interview. On t
Software Engineer Intern
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.
