Lots of great people to meet. Great employee benefits.
No cons for working at Microsoft in my experience.
I had a phone interview with them over Skype. They called me on time, and the interviewer was very pleasant. So, I could relax and talk about my experiences, enjoying the conversation. It was not too difficult, nor too easy.
On my third attempt to get hired at MS, I spent a day and a half in 1-hour interviews. I was being considered by two groups simultaneously, which was massively grueling. There were lots of the usual MS-type questions to solve, involving logic or co
Coding-based, several programming problems. Coding on the whiteboard, which is not as straightforward as it may sound. There were several different interviews, all quite long, so you had to stay focused throughout the whole day.
I had a phone interview with them over Skype. They called me on time, and the interviewer was very pleasant. So, I could relax and talk about my experiences, enjoying the conversation. It was not too difficult, nor too easy.
On my third attempt to get hired at MS, I spent a day and a half in 1-hour interviews. I was being considered by two groups simultaneously, which was massively grueling. There were lots of the usual MS-type questions to solve, involving logic or co
Coding-based, several programming problems. Coding on the whiteboard, which is not as straightforward as it may sound. There were several different interviews, all quite long, so you had to stay focused throughout the whole day.