Software engineer at Microsoft
Software engineer at Microsoft
MS is a financially stable company with a variety of software jobs spanning multiple computer science disciplines.
Stock awards and benefits increase over time, so the pay is good for long-timers.
Vacation increases as well to 4 weeks. Benefits are already generous.
It's a slower company, and many groups have friction against various new things. Domain knowledge is not well rewarded; generic skills such as data structures, C++, and Windows system programming, etc., have much higher rewards during recruitment in particular.
Pay is not bad, but increasing the base salary meaningfully is really difficult unless you gain promotions regularly. So, keep up the hard work and learn new things that are valued here.
Keep up the good work and remain open for change.
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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.
SWE Intern
I got a referral from the TNT program, which allowed me to skip the phone screen and other interviews. I got to the final round and had back-to-back interviews with a Software Engineer and a Product Manager. Both interviews were mostly behavioral, wi
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.
SWE Intern
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 4, 2025I got a referral from the TNT program, which allowed me to skip the phone screen and other interviews. I got to the final round and had back-to-back interviews with a Software Engineer and a Product Manager. Both interviews were mostly behavioral, wi
