Partner Engineering Manager
Partner Engineering Manager
Good team, work-life balance, good pay. If you are in a good product team, a lot can be accomplished. The key is hiring and retaining talent. It's very hard to keep people at Microsoft due to competing salaries from Google and Facebook.
A lot of politics. You need to maneuver politics to get work done. After Satya, things have become much smoother. But there's still so much overheard in the management layer. Many leaders think they are technically good and want to get involved in decisions.
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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.
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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.
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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
