Work-life balance is available at Microsoft, but you must demand it
Work-life balance is available at Microsoft, but you must demand it
Good compensation package, especially for highly qualified employees.
There is also an opportunity to work on incredible projects that are used by literally billions of people. You can still change the world working at Microsoft.
It is an incredible rush to work with so many insanely smart and driven people.
There is a lot of talk about work-life balance, but the reality is that you only get the work-life balance that you demand. It is up to the employee to say "no" when they have had enough.
While the compensation package is good, Microsoft isn't minting any new millionaires. If you come to work for Microsoft, you are working for a paycheck.
While business models may be evolving, the core values of hard work by smart people are still what is necessary to build the Microsoft of the Future.
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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.
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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.
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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
