Pay and benefits are excellent. You can work on some cool stuff that everyone uses. Lots of interesting things are going on around Microsoft at all times.
Little creativity on the lower levels. Real innovation is hard to come by.
Decisions are unclear, and making changes takes forever.
The Microsoft engineering process often gets in the way of delivering a strong product.
Not much fun. Morale was almost always low.
Lots of brain puzzles and escalating interviews with different people on the team. Read the books on brain puzzles asked at MS interviews. They're not wrong. Most people interview with multiple teams. However, if all your interviews are with one te
The interview process was good. The interview was mainly based on coding. There were no specific testing questions. The interview covered: * A question on arrays. * A question on Linked Lists, specifically how to insert a node. * A question o
Initially, I was contacted by a recruiter. I had a quick phone screening and then was called for an onsite interview. The onsite interview was horrible because one of the interviewers was jumping randomly between questions. I believe the interviewer
Lots of brain puzzles and escalating interviews with different people on the team. Read the books on brain puzzles asked at MS interviews. They're not wrong. Most people interview with multiple teams. However, if all your interviews are with one te
The interview process was good. The interview was mainly based on coding. There were no specific testing questions. The interview covered: * A question on arrays. * A question on Linked Lists, specifically how to insert a node. * A question o
Initially, I was contacted by a recruiter. I had a quick phone screening and then was called for an onsite interview. The onsite interview was horrible because one of the interviewers was jumping randomly between questions. I believe the interviewer