Microsoft: The future looks great, and now is the best time to work for us
Microsoft: The future looks great, and now is the best time to work for us
Under CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft is going in the right direction. I believe the senior leadership is doing the right things, making engineering changes like a combined engineering model, a less complex management chain, and focusing on core strengths. As an employee, I get less tangled in processes and am free to do my work without micromanagement. Great work gets noticed not only by my manager but all the way up to the VP level, and rewards follow. I am provided opportunities to take on additional responsibilities, which paves the way for professional growth.
Unlike other competitor companies, work-life balance is much better at Microsoft. I can manage to spend a lot of quality time with my family, take periodic vacations, and still maintain an excellent rating at performance reviews.
I don't have any cons to discuss at the moment, but I am still not convinced about the Performance Review changes for 2014. We will get a better understanding by September 2014.
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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
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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
