Decent work-life balance, depending on what team you're on.
Microsoft pays significantly less than competitors, who also have decent work-life balance.
This was a phone screen where the interviewer asked basic questions. I was not very interested because I had just learned that 18,000 people were being laid off. One interesting question was: If a single bit has two possible values (0 or 1), how ma
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. As an SDE II at Microsoft Dublin, I had one round of coding interview, one round of OOP interview, and one round of system design interview. The overall experience was normal. - Palindrome-related questio
I had a set of background questions like 'What are you currently working on?', the most difficult programming task I've ever had, and the hardest bug to find, etc. Then I was asked several simple technical questions about the difference between iter
This was a phone screen where the interviewer asked basic questions. I was not very interested because I had just learned that 18,000 people were being laid off. One interesting question was: If a single bit has two possible values (0 or 1), how ma
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. As an SDE II at Microsoft Dublin, I had one round of coding interview, one round of OOP interview, and one round of system design interview. The overall experience was normal. - Palindrome-related questio
I had a set of background questions like 'What are you currently working on?', the most difficult programming task I've ever had, and the hardest bug to find, etc. Then I was asked several simple technical questions about the difference between iter