Microsoft is a big, big place.
There are lots of things you can do.
Pay is good.
Internal movement is encouraged.
It's a big place.
It takes hard work, and a fair bit of luck, to be noticed.
Your career is enormously influenced by your manager.
Keep pushing the culture change: diversity, transparency, accountability, etc.
4 Rounds: * Recruiter Intro (phone call) * Manager screen (phone call) * Technical Screen w/ Algorithm & General Knowledge (Video) * Technical Signals (Project Feature Enhancement, Unit Tests for feature, System Design) and Behavioural Inter
The process was HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager, and then a three-interview loop that covered two system design rounds and one DSA round. The system design was intensive and challenging. It took them five weeks to come
After the initial recruiter alignment, you move directly to the technical round conducted by the hiring manager. The overall experience is lively and real, full of technical questions and a technical coding challenge to solve.
4 Rounds: * Recruiter Intro (phone call) * Manager screen (phone call) * Technical Screen w/ Algorithm & General Knowledge (Video) * Technical Signals (Project Feature Enhancement, Unit Tests for feature, System Design) and Behavioural Inter
The process was HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager, and then a three-interview loop that covered two system design rounds and one DSA round. The system design was intensive and challenging. It took them five weeks to come
After the initial recruiter alignment, you move directly to the technical round conducted by the hiring manager. The overall experience is lively and real, full of technical questions and a technical coding challenge to solve.