Mostly dependent on your manager... mostly
Mostly dependent on your manager... mostly
- Good pay and benefits.
- Generally good work/life balance for big tech, depending on your manager.
- Decently supportive of WFH/hybrid, with no forced RTO.
- Changing teams is the same as applying from outside the company, with lengthy interview loops and all.
- Very deep hierarchies with many middle managers, leading to lots of office politics, reorgs, etc.
- There's always a big layoff around the corner.
- Even if your manager is good, company-wide initiatives can sometimes hurt you. I lost my job due to an automated process that my manager wasn't even involved in.
- Anti-DEI at this point. They got rid of their whole DEI department, and then fired me and a lot of other trans and disabled people two days after the inauguration this year.
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Software Engineer II
I had an OA, and then a final loop day where three rounds were scheduled back-to-back on the same day. The first round was system design, followed by LeetCode/SQL, and the final round was with a TPM manager. I think I did well, but I wasn't selected
Software Engineer II
Screening call followed by three technical interviews and one behavioral interview. All technical interviews started with one values question, and then we jumped into LC-style problem-solving. The process is language-agnostic. Design questions might
Software Engineer II
Hiring Event: * 1 OA (2 DS & Alg problems) * Final Round (virtual) - 3 rounds on DS & Alg and 1 round on System Design Heard back results after 3 days.
Software Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesAugust 1, 2025I had an OA, and then a final loop day where three rounds were scheduled back-to-back on the same day. The first round was system design, followed by LeetCode/SQL, and the final round was with a TPM manager. I think I did well, but I wasn't selected
Software Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJune 1, 2024Screening call followed by three technical interviews and one behavioral interview. All technical interviews started with one values question, and then we jumped into LC-style problem-solving. The process is language-agnostic. Design questions might
Software Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesApril 1, 2024Hiring Event: * 1 OA (2 DS & Alg problems) * Final Round (virtual) - 3 rounds on DS & Alg and 1 round on System Design Heard back results after 3 days.
