It's Been Great... (But Cya)
It's Been Great... (But Cya)
MS is a good place to work. The benefits are great, and the pay is mostly fair. Job security is as good as it gets. Millions of people will use your products. Despite its rep as a maker of stodgy old box software, MS continues to innovate in many areas. There are truly brilliant people in every product group.
Trying to make things happen at MS is like trying to drive a slalom course in an 18-wheeler.
The bureaucracy can be stifling at times.
Not everyone is a rocket scientist.
Mediocre people sometimes rise to positions of significant authority through extreme conformity.
Innovate more outside of traditional MS businesses. Windows + Office can't carry us forever.
Why did Live Mesh get swallowed up by the money-losing cesspool that is Windows Live, while Dropbox is building an O($100M) business out of the exact same idea?
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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
