Opportunity to work on products used by the whole world
Opportunity to work on products used by the whole world
You get a chance to make a difference and work on high-impact products.
You get to work and learn with a lot of smart people.
Good pay and benefits.
Some teams have more bureaucracy than others.
Sometimes you feel that you are just a cog in a big machine.
In most teams, it is hard to grow career-wise without sacrificing some work-life balance. There are a lot of people there who work hard and put in a lot of extra time. If you don't do the same, then you may not get promotions or a huge bonus.
Increase base pay across the board for engineers.
Change the culture of working late and over the weekend.
Increase the hiring bar. Lately (8 years), hiring quality has been going down.
Allow more flexible work-from-home options.
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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
