Innovative Company: Customer First and Employee Experience
Innovative Company: Customer First and Employee Experience
Innovative across Cloud (Azure, Office 365, Dynamics), Enterprise Software (Windows, SQL etc.), and Devices (Surface, XBOX).
Huge on Growth Mindset: beginner's mindset – always learning and growing.
Decent work-life balance, but completely up to the employee to manage.
Customer-first mindset – everything starts with the customer.
Most teams have a collaborative environment.
The new Microsoft under Satya's leadership is really awesome!
The new performance management system does not force managers to label employees with a rating or meet a bell curve/forced distribution. As a result, managers are motivated to keep people discussions very positive and healthy, and not a bloodbath like it was several years ago.
Some teams are very fast-paced (Azure) and can be overwhelming. Work-life balance has the potential to go out the window, so you have to own and manage it.
Promotions are hard to come by at Principal/Partner levels.
Newer employees make more money than those who have stayed for a long time (which I believe is true everywhere). Employees who do not want to lose their edge on earning potential may be tempted to leave the company for other FAANG/Tech companies and come back (boomerang) at higher levels/compensation in a few years, which is quite common.
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It was a typical MS interview process. Though I knew the hiring manager, I was probably a bit more relaxed than some. I had six one-hour interviews over the course of one day, mostly focused on team leadership and operational excellence. My past ex
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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.
Principal Service Engineering Manager
United StatesOctober 5, 2014It was a typical MS interview process. Though I knew the hiring manager, I was probably a bit more relaxed than some. I had six one-hour interviews over the course of one day, mostly focused on team leadership and operational excellence. My past ex
Software Engineer Intern
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.
Software Engineering Intern
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.
