Enormous company with great benefits. Your mileage may vary
Enormous company with great benefits. Your mileage may vary
Fantastic benefits (for the USA, by USA standards) Strong WFH flexibility Slowly becoming more modern in terms of technology Takes security and privacy seriously. Good culture of learning, growing, and having impact while balancing work, life, and wellbeing. Good family support benefits
There can still be a lot of bureaucracy at times.
Hardening the software supply chain and development practices has been done at developer expense, largely with internal-only systems that are sub-par to use.
Depending on the organization, you might as well be at a different place. Everything from policies to budgets and hiring can be pretty different.
Our propensity to build our own version of everything prevents us from building a great version of anything.
Additional Ratings
Was this helpful?
Microsoft Interview Questions
Microsoft Interview Experiences
Principal Software Engineer
The interview process was scattered and multi-tiered. I spoke with several resources before getting to the hiring manager. Initial discussions were very high-level and generic. They acted more like HR screeners, even though they had IT knowledge. Fi
Principal Software Engineer
I unfortunately had a very bad experience with more than one Microsoft recruiter. They all treated candidates in a very sloppy and irresponsible way. All other companies' recruiters have done their due diligence to complete some internal screening pr
Principal Software Engineer
1. Got an initial screening interview over the phone and was rejected simply because I did not speak at a high enough language level (though I have a conversational level). I was very disappointed at being judged by language only, while they totally
Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2021The interview process was scattered and multi-tiered. I spoke with several resources before getting to the hiring manager. Initial discussions were very high-level and generic. They acted more like HR screeners, even though they had IT knowledge. Fi
Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesSeptember 28, 2018I unfortunately had a very bad experience with more than one Microsoft recruiter. They all treated candidates in a very sloppy and irresponsible way. All other companies' recruiters have done their due diligence to complete some internal screening pr
Principal Software Engineer
Tokyo, Tokyo, JapanOctober 1, 20251. Got an initial screening interview over the phone and was rejected simply because I did not speak at a high enough language level (though I have a conversational level). I was very disappointed at being judged by language only, while they totally
