Great people, old tools
Great people, old tools
Lovely team, and a supportive manager and mentor.
Learned a lot and grew both as a developer and a person.
Good pay and location.
Internal tooling is a bit of a letdown if you are used to Linux development.
Learning old tools that were on the way out took a significant amount of time.
More things were broken than expected.
Make human resources both more human and more resourceful.
Fix the tools: you are wasting hundreds of hours of development time on bad tooling.
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Intern Software Developer
There were a lot of questions, such as: * "Tell me about yourself." * "Why would you like to work for Microsoft?" * "What is the latest news you've heard about Microsoft?" * "What is the difference between good code and excellent code?"
SWE Intern
Had 3 interviews focused on LeetCode-style problems. The questions were quite easy; one was about dynamic programming, and some other questions were about linked lists. They were Easy/Medium difficulty. Each interview was around 45 minutes long.
Software Engineer
I got the invitation link, completed and passed every test case successfully, but surprisingly received a rejection the following week without any clear explanation, even though my performance met all expectations.
Intern Software Developer
IsraelAugust 22, 2022There were a lot of questions, such as: * "Tell me about yourself." * "Why would you like to work for Microsoft?" * "What is the latest news you've heard about Microsoft?" * "What is the difference between good code and excellent code?"
SWE Intern
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 9, 2025Had 3 interviews focused on LeetCode-style problems. The questions were quite easy; one was about dynamic programming, and some other questions were about linked lists. They were Easy/Medium difficulty. Each interview was around 45 minutes long.
Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 5, 2025I got the invitation link, completed and passed every test case successfully, but surprisingly received a rejection the following week without any clear explanation, even though my performance met all expectations.
