Microsoft is a great company to work for
Microsoft is a great company to work for
Smart colleagues. Lots of exposure to world-class technology. Most people have their own office. Career growth room is also good; you can go either a management or a higher technical position.
Office politics is heavy sometimes. Female employees are proportionally fewer. Bottom-up innovation is hard.
When going to the global market, we can use more inside talents.
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Software Development Engineer II
Technical Screen: Leetcode Hard question about Graphs. Interview loop over two days, 4 rounds. 3 rounds had Leetcode Medium/Hard along with System Design questions and behavioral. Manger round was mostly behavioral along with a design question. D
Software Development Engineer II
The process was very simple. 1. A recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn. 2. I finished the online coding assessment. From there, a Microsoft Hiring Event day was scheduled. The interview was pretty simple, straight LeetCode. They didn't even change t
Software Development Engineer II
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
Software Development Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesOctober 21, 2025Technical Screen: Leetcode Hard question about Graphs. Interview loop over two days, 4 rounds. 3 rounds had Leetcode Medium/Hard along with System Design questions and behavioral. Manger round was mostly behavioral along with a design question. D
Software Development Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesFebruary 18, 2022The process was very simple. 1. A recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn. 2. I finished the online coding assessment. From there, a Microsoft Hiring Event day was scheduled. The interview was pretty simple, straight LeetCode. They didn't even change t
Software Development Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2019I 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
