Microsoft has excellent benefits, far beyond the substantial salary they provide, along with largely supporting excellent causes.
Microsoft absolutely does not care about entry-level employees. As a whole, the company is extremely nepotistic, and upper management is completely unwilling to be critical of themselves or their subordinates. Ultimately, the solidity of ideas and data are simply proxies for interpersonal battles, with the actual ideas being unobserved.
The very nature of management at Microsoft leads to obsessive control freaks being raised to positions of power because claiming "ownership" over ideas is so encouraged. Ultimately, this results in bad ideas being stuck to far beyond reason, and good ideas being ignored based on the political implications of the ideas. Removing politics from the code bases should be a top priority, but is consistently ignored as a goal.
I was contacted by a recruiter and flew to Redmond without a phone screen. The recruiters took us out to dinner twice over the 3-day trip. There was one full day of interviews, with 5 interviewers in total. The interviews included general design and
I cleared my campus interview and came down to Bellevue. The interview process started at 7:30 AM. There were 4 rounds of interviews, each lasting 45 minutes. I found 3 of them to be pretty simple, but the last one was very hard. I interviewed at
I was interviewing for an SDE position and felt prepared. I left completely demoralized. The interviewers were certainly nice, and Microsoft does a great job of making sure that you are comfortable. They paid for the flight, lodging, food, rental ca
I was contacted by a recruiter and flew to Redmond without a phone screen. The recruiters took us out to dinner twice over the 3-day trip. There was one full day of interviews, with 5 interviewers in total. The interviews included general design and
I cleared my campus interview and came down to Bellevue. The interview process started at 7:30 AM. There were 4 rounds of interviews, each lasting 45 minutes. I found 3 of them to be pretty simple, but the last one was very hard. I interviewed at
I was interviewing for an SDE position and felt prepared. I left completely demoralized. The interviewers were certainly nice, and Microsoft does a great job of making sure that you are comfortable. They paid for the flight, lodging, food, rental ca