Experience working at Microsoft
Experience working at Microsoft
Great company, good work-life balance, competitive benefits and salaries.
The company has a great culture of giving to the community.
Annual performance review is based on relative rating with your peers within your team and with your other peers across the teams. Since it is relative and the performance curve is forced, some % of people have to fall in all the buckets of rating (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Due to this, peers don't help each other much, which results in a lack of team collaboration.
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Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
HackerRank test and 3 rounds of coding, plus an experience-based interview. The position was for QA, who should have storage and networking knowledge. So, basic questions on storage and networking were asked.
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
A full-day process, broken into multiple individual one-on-one interviews. These interviews can include time at the blackboard, writing snippets of code or scripting. Not for the faint of heart or the unprepared.
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
Applied through a university recruiter and got to do an on-campus interview. The question was very easy (add an item to a sorted linked list), and I got to fly to Sydney for the next round. The second round consisted of four individual interviews wit
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNovember 23, 2025HackerRank test and 3 rounds of coding, plus an experience-based interview. The position was for QA, who should have storage and networking knowledge. So, basic questions on storage and networking were asked.
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesFebruary 1, 2020A full-day process, broken into multiple individual one-on-one interviews. These interviews can include time at the blackboard, writing snippets of code or scripting. Not for the faint of heart or the unprepared.
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
Sydney, AustraliaMarch 1, 2015Applied through a university recruiter and got to do an on-campus interview. The question was very easy (add an item to a sorted linked list), and I got to fly to Sydney for the next round. The second round consisted of four individual interviews wit
