Good Benefits, Smart People, High "taxes"
Good Benefits, Smart People, High "taxes"
Microsoft engineers are very smart. Depending on the group, this can be a huge benefit. You'll find yourself learning from those around you (a good thing, unless you've got more ego than you deserve), and will be amazed at the capacity.
Microsoft is very heavy on process, generally. Some of it is understandable. Microsoft probably has more paying customers than any other tech company on the planet. This results in very high day-to-day 'taxes' involving enduring processes that are rarely reviewed for usefulness. This can be very frustrating.
A little more attention paid to true agility (not some mishmash of agile development practices layered over the top of the existing software processes already in place) would go a very long way.
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Software Engineer
The process was smooth, though it was long. It involved four one-hour interviews with four different members of the organization within Microsoft. The questions asked included firmware, bitwise operations, and optimization for dealing with big data.
Software Development Engineer II
Initial phone call screening by HR. Why Microsoft? What are your strengths? Flew over to Redmond for the interview. Day-long interviews with various team members: * First: Implementation of `memcpy`. Coding optimization. * Second: UI design q
SDE-2
There were three technical rounds after the initial phone screen and take-home coding test. - HLD: Design a booking system for movie tickets. - DSA: Two simple, LeetCode easy, string-based questions. - LLD: Movie ticket booking system, the same as H
Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2022The process was smooth, though it was long. It involved four one-hour interviews with four different members of the organization within Microsoft. The questions asked included firmware, bitwise operations, and optimization for dealing with big data.
Software Development Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJanuary 4, 2013Initial phone call screening by HR. Why Microsoft? What are your strengths? Flew over to Redmond for the interview. Day-long interviews with various team members: * First: Implementation of `memcpy`. Coding optimization. * Second: UI design q
SDE-2
Redmond, Washington, United StatesApril 9, 2026There were three technical rounds after the initial phone screen and take-home coding test. - HLD: Design a booking system for movie tickets. - DSA: Two simple, LeetCode easy, string-based questions. - LLD: Movie ticket booking system, the same as H
