Microsoft is a safe place to work, innovative, and motivated to improve its situation
Microsoft is a safe place to work, innovative, and motivated to improve its situation
-So many brilliant individuals. -Constantly improving its HR processes and personnel review system. -Executives listen to employees. -So many great businesses to work for. If your tastes change wrt the type of products or technologies to work on, it's very easy to move between products or business groups. -Is in the process of redefining itself and its focus on devices and services. -The engineering teams have a good focus on product quality. -Satya as CEO.
Like any very large company, there can be some bureaucracy that slows down the engineering teams. The company as a whole can be slow to change, though smaller businesses can usually respond to market changes a lot more quickly if they don't have a dependency on a slower business group.
- Continue the mission of focusing on devices and services.
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Microsoft Interview Experiences
SWE Intern
Had 3 interviews focused on LeetCode-style problems. The questions were quite easy; one was about dynamic programming, and some other questions were about linked lists. They were Easy/Medium difficulty. Each interview was around 45 minutes long.
Software Engineer
I got the invitation link, completed and passed every test case successfully, but surprisingly received a rejection the following week without any clear explanation, even though my performance met all expectations.
Software Development Engineer (SDE) II
The onsite consisted of two system design questions and two technical questions. These rounds were back to back and weren't actually ordered. I thought I was going to be doing technical first, but was hit with design at the start.
SWE Intern
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 9, 2025Had 3 interviews focused on LeetCode-style problems. The questions were quite easy; one was about dynamic programming, and some other questions were about linked lists. They were Easy/Medium difficulty. Each interview was around 45 minutes long.
Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 5, 2025I got the invitation link, completed and passed every test case successfully, but surprisingly received a rejection the following week without any clear explanation, even though my performance met all expectations.
Software Development Engineer (SDE) II
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 5, 2025The onsite consisted of two system design questions and two technical questions. These rounds were back to back and weren't actually ordered. I thought I was going to be doing technical first, but was hit with design at the start.
