Gigantic space, single office. Smart and knowledgeable colleagues. Large-scale projects. Meaningful work. Reasonably good salary. No state income tax in WA.
Many jobs are about maintaining and improving mature products, thus they are less innovative. Innovative projects tend to be concentrated in certain fields. Overall, the company is currently less innovative than some of its competitors.
I interviewed for an SDE II position with the Microsoft Academic Graph team. I will say outright that it was an absolutely terrible interview experience for me. The team asked me some specific questions about how I would add features to Microsoft A
Initial phone call screening by HR. Why Microsoft? What are your strengths? Flew over to Redmond for the interview. Day-long interviews with various team members: * First: Implementation of `memcpy`. Coding optimization. * Second: UI design q
Applied online. The process included a phone interview first, followed by six rounds of onsite interviews with technical questions. Each round was 45 minutes long and focused on technical questions of average difficulty. I spoke with the general mana
I interviewed for an SDE II position with the Microsoft Academic Graph team. I will say outright that it was an absolutely terrible interview experience for me. The team asked me some specific questions about how I would add features to Microsoft A
Initial phone call screening by HR. Why Microsoft? What are your strengths? Flew over to Redmond for the interview. Day-long interviews with various team members: * First: Implementation of `memcpy`. Coding optimization. * Second: UI design q
Applied online. The process included a phone interview first, followed by six rounds of onsite interviews with technical questions. Each round was 45 minutes long and focused on technical questions of average difficulty. I spoke with the general mana