A lot of talent and smart people, literally. You can always find someone who knows what you need, although it requires some experience to navigate. You can also find the best team you have dreamed of if you are in the right group. And for sure, Microsoft still has great benefits and perks.
Lots of differences between groups make it hard to really tell what Microsoft is. Besides, all that Microsoft made great is in transition. More and more, the pitfall for success is that knowledge is no longer retained because talent is moving or leaving. While Microsoft is reforming itself in big strides, the management quality in many teams is decreasing and putting way more pressure onto the staff, while Agile Development not always helps to engineer the greatest solutions.
Watch out that Agile Development and speed is not everything, and try to keep the great talent.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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