Lots of Options, Hard to Connect with Products
Lots of Options, Hard to Connect with Products
Microsoft is a huge company with a bunch of different products.
You can decide whether you want to work on a gaming platform, an operating system, or productivity products, like the Office suite.
There's a lot of opportunity for moving between teams and between product silos.
A lot of the products that Microsoft sells feel heartless. It is hard to find meaning or connect with the end users when working on these. I therefore find it hard to stay motivated to be customer-oriented.
Burnout is real, and it's not talked about enough. Help your employees set boundaries between work and life in order to promote long-term employee satisfaction. Simply having flexible schedules does not achieve that goal.
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Software Engineer
The typical interview process consisted of four rounds: Leetcode, OOP, and System Design. Most of the interviewers were nice and supportive. During the OOP round, however, I felt the interviewer was disengaged, and it wasn’t clear what the expected
Software Engineer
The first step was a phone screening with the recruiter. Next, there was a 2-hour online programming challenge, which included two sub-challenges, one of them focused on complexity. Following this, there were three 45-minute interviews, conducted b
Software Engineer
It was a good experience overall. It was a known data structure problem, a low-level design and a high-level design problem. Ask for clarifying questions on what they are expecting. The DSA was medium-level.
Software Engineer
Dublin, Dublin, IrelandSeptember 25, 2025The typical interview process consisted of four rounds: Leetcode, OOP, and System Design. Most of the interviewers were nice and supportive. During the OOP round, however, I felt the interviewer was disengaged, and it wasn’t clear what the expected
Software Engineer
Dublin, Dublin, IrelandJune 1, 2024The first step was a phone screening with the recruiter. Next, there was a 2-hour online programming challenge, which included two sub-challenges, one of them focused on complexity. Following this, there were three 45-minute interviews, conducted b
Software Engineer
Dublin, Dublin, IrelandSeptember 1, 2025It was a good experience overall. It was a known data structure problem, a low-level design and a high-level design problem. Ask for clarifying questions on what they are expecting. The DSA was medium-level.
