Brand Recognition.
The Microsoft Campus (regardless of which one you wind up at) will be nice.
There is a great deal of flexibility with regard to which 12 hours you wish to work each day.
Currently, Microsoft is so focused on cost cutting, you will have to deal with constantly eroding benefits. The culture there has become very elitist. Even the dumbest blockhead is convinced they must be brilliant or Microsoft wouldn't have hired them. There is a great deal of talk about "Work Life Balance," but it is just talk. There is constant pressure to work more, put in more hours, stay later, etc.
Start asking yourself why so many of your best developers are leaving.
Develop an imagination and try to do something new rather than constantly trying to develop something "just like" some other product that is turning out to be successful, but you didn't think of.
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
There were 3 rounds of technical interviews after the initial screening. Different interviewers asked some repeated questions. Some questions focused on your existing areas of expertise, including: * Active Directory * .NET * CI/CD
The regular interview cycle for MS includes: * One HR round for introductions. * A technical phone screening. * One full day of technical interviews (five in all). Technical interviews required whiteboard skills. In the phone screening, I was
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
There were 3 rounds of technical interviews after the initial screening. Different interviewers asked some repeated questions. Some questions focused on your existing areas of expertise, including: * Active Directory * .NET * CI/CD
The regular interview cycle for MS includes: * One HR round for introductions. * A technical phone screening. * One full day of technical interviews (five in all). Technical interviews required whiteboard skills. In the phone screening, I was