Microsoft

The process was regular: a phone interview, a technical interview over the phone using an online tool, and then the on-site loop, which included five interviews. It was a really good experience; I liked the team and the conversations we had.

The interviewers were very courteous and genuinely interested in me. There were five interview rounds scheduled for me, with a 10-minute gap between them. They also provided a person to accompany me for lunch, and it was a wonderful experience.

The process was very scatterbrained and poorly run. The group didn't have a clear leader, and their criteria for what they were looking for in an engineer shifted with every interviewer. The interview included a really awkward development test, sat