Slow Teams, Good Growth
Slow Teams, Good Growth
Good work-life balance. Good benefits. Good career growth from junior to senior level. Some people hated the curve or stack ranking, but it does allow each team's best engineer to stand out and get promoted, even if their project is not going well.
Most teams move slowly compared to the industry. Some teams had tremendous baggage and technical debt. Too much process. Too many PMs.
Satya's direction is definitely better than Ballmer's, but there needs to be more painful changes.
More teams need to operate the Silicon Valley way:
- Invest more on Android / iOS platform.
- Participate more on open source community.
There is enough talent in the company to start building cool products again.
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Software Engineer Intern
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.
Software Engineering Intern
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.
SWE Intern
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
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.
SWE Intern
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
