Less pay, more politics
Less pay, more politics
Reasonable work-life balance if you are in the right team.
Lower pay than many other companies.
Politics.
How good your life will be depends entirely on your manager.
If you are unlucky, your tenure will be short.
Microsoft does reorgs yearly, it seems. The management does not seem to match people with teams very well after a reorg.
If you end up in a team that is not a match, you are stuck and will have to look for another job.
Finding another position inside Microsoft will require that you interview again, exactly as if you applied from outside Microsoft.
There are many companies that pay much better and offer more interesting work.
I cannot recommend Microsoft.
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It was about what I was expecting for the interview process. Microsoft scheduled five interview blocks at their campus, with the fifth being "as appropriate." Each interviewer was primarily interested in evaluating how I thought through the problem,
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Very disappointed. One interviewer was from a different team (replacing another interviewer) and continued to ask questions on topics that were not very related to the position and that I am not familiar with.
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A recruiter contacted me around mid-September. I then had a 5-round onsite interview, plus an additional General Hiring Manager interview a week ago. After that, the recruiter disappeared without providing any update. I will treat this as a reject
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesMay 1, 2019It was about what I was expecting for the interview process. Microsoft scheduled five interview blocks at their campus, with the fifth being "as appropriate." Each interviewer was primarily interested in evaluating how I thought through the problem,
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesSeptember 29, 2024Very disappointed. One interviewer was from a different team (replacing another interviewer) and continued to ask questions on topics that were not very related to the position and that I am not familiar with.
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesOctober 1, 2019A recruiter contacted me around mid-September. I then had a 5-round onsite interview, plus an additional General Hiring Manager interview a week ago. After that, the recruiter disappeared without providing any update. I will treat this as a reject
