Tons of smart people. Lots of groups to work for, all situated on a single campus. Each group at Microsoft has a product line often equivalent to another rival company.
Great benefits, especially medical.
Too much butt-kissing required for promotions. You better be the manager's pal.
Lots of infighting between groups, especially R&D and secretive incubation groups.
Please get better middle management (in Microsoft, most middle management are engineers) and support mandatory business/MBA development programs for all middle management.
Please focus on more coordinated research and incubation efforts, and not on which internal group comes out on top after thrashing all others.
Very straightforward, two back-to-back thirty-minute technical interviews that had a combination of LeetCode easy and medium questions, along with some behavioral questions that were sprinkled in there.
It was one round, two interviews: one technical and one behavioral. It took about a month to get the interview request and a week to hear back. The behavioral round also had some minimal technical questions.
I got a referral from the TNT program, which allowed me to skip the phone screen and other interviews. I got to the final round and had back-to-back interviews with a Software Engineer and a Product Manager. Both interviews were mostly behavioral, wi
Very straightforward, two back-to-back thirty-minute technical interviews that had a combination of LeetCode easy and medium questions, along with some behavioral questions that were sprinkled in there.
It was one round, two interviews: one technical and one behavioral. It took about a month to get the interview request and a week to hear back. The behavioral round also had some minimal technical questions.
I got a referral from the TNT program, which allowed me to skip the phone screen and other interviews. I got to the final round and had back-to-back interviews with a Software Engineer and a Product Manager. Both interviews were mostly behavioral, wi