Lots of smart people. Lots of opportunities to grow within the company. Great benefits. Customer focus development. Great culture. Good compensation.
Several re-orgs occurred in almost every group at Microsoft. Most of the time, your manager will change every year. Things take time to get approval, which slows down growth.
Please reduce the number of re-orgs that happen very frequently. This takes away the long-term focus of any project you are working on.
I was initially contacted by a third-party recruiter working for Microsoft about a position on the Xbox team. Not expecting much, I went along with the process and spoke with the recruiter, and then another one. Finally, I was set up with a phone scr
As an internal interview process, I had only 3 interviews to go through. When I joined as an SDE 15 years ago, it was quite different. They usually scheduled the first 3 interview loops. If all 3 interviews went well, it would then proceed to 2 more
I was contacted by an external recruiter via LinkedIn. The job seemed interesting, with their game studio. Supposedly they're working on some kind of super-secret project over there that not even a signed NDA can loosen their lips about. But they re
I was initially contacted by a third-party recruiter working for Microsoft about a position on the Xbox team. Not expecting much, I went along with the process and spoke with the recruiter, and then another one. Finally, I was set up with a phone scr
As an internal interview process, I had only 3 interviews to go through. When I joined as an SDE 15 years ago, it was quite different. They usually scheduled the first 3 interview loops. If all 3 interviews went well, it would then proceed to 2 more
I was contacted by an external recruiter via LinkedIn. The job seemed interesting, with their game studio. Supposedly they're working on some kind of super-secret project over there that not even a signed NDA can loosen their lips about. But they re