Good benefits, good atmosphere, and campus.
Good infrastructure. A status symbol working at Microsoft.
Can talk to senior management without any restriction. You get your own private office.
Less compensation as compared to others. Very difficult to penetrate the existing crowd. A kinda political atmosphere to work in it.
Don't be too harsh on the interns and new joinees. Do not assign them a fastidious manager. Assign them a mentor who actually knows about the project the new guy is supposed to work on.
Standard algorithmic questions, though significantly easier than SDE interview questions.
I was first interviewed at my university campus in Europe. It was a 45-minute interview with standard questions about programming languages and problem-solving. About two to three months after that, I traveled to Redmond, WA, for the second round of
College career fair -> College screening -> Seattle for 4x 1-hour interviews.
Standard algorithmic questions, though significantly easier than SDE interview questions.
I was first interviewed at my university campus in Europe. It was a 45-minute interview with standard questions about programming languages and problem-solving. About two to three months after that, I traveled to Redmond, WA, for the second round of
College career fair -> College screening -> Seattle for 4x 1-hour interviews.