Fantastic place for an engineer.
Best place to take your analytical and design skills to their utmost.
Good benefits package.
Salaries are bad. Real bad. Microsoft makes you pay them for working there. Microsoft does not pay.
Even if you are in sales, you are not getting what your peers are getting at other places. You work at Microsoft because you would enjoy the work, definitely even though it's life suckingly hard, not for the salary, not at all.
Focus. Start shutting down certain products. Microsoft does not have to develop everything that everyone will ever use. Focus.
Video interview with a technical interviewer, focusing mostly on behavioral and past experiences. This can be challenging as they seek in-depth, thoughtful answers, but the interview atmosphere is very good and calm. Avoid generic responses. When a
Initially, there was a phone round that lasted about 40 minutes. After being selected, I received a call for another round. Then, I was invited for an onsite round, which happened about an hour later.
It was a no after four rounds. Questions were experience-based and scenario-based, with no direct questions asked. The question levels were above average, covering database, OS, and more.
Video interview with a technical interviewer, focusing mostly on behavioral and past experiences. This can be challenging as they seek in-depth, thoughtful answers, but the interview atmosphere is very good and calm. Avoid generic responses. When a
Initially, there was a phone round that lasted about 40 minutes. After being selected, I received a call for another round. Then, I was invited for an onsite round, which happened about an hour later.
It was a no after four rounds. Questions were experience-based and scenario-based, with no direct questions asked. The question levels were above average, covering database, OS, and more.