Good Balance, No Sdet Path
Good Balance, No Sdet Path
Great benefits, work-life balance, and people. If you are a hardcore coding SE, then you will fit in perfectly.
Does not value the SDET career path at this time. Not a family-oriented company now, with few and disorganized family events.
Reconsider the SDET to SE conversion. You need individuals that just get the "grunt work" done.
Reconsider the family events. Mandate that individual teams host multiple events if it is not possible to do company-wide events.
Non-Microsoft family members are the ones that support your great employees in this stressful, fast-paced, demanding technical career. This might help retain more of your employees past the 3-5 year average.
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Senior Software Development Engineer In Test
Phone interview, followed by 4 tech screens and a final round with the hiring manager.
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.
Senior Software Development Engineer In Test
Redmond, Washington, United StatesFebruary 1, 2012Phone interview, followed by 4 tech screens and a final round with the hiring manager.
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.
