Good company with benefits
Good company with benefits
- Good insurance
- Beautiful campus and perks
- Well-structured/established company
- AI expense is too large.
- Employees are fearful of getting laid off and frequent reorgs.
- Layoffs are irrelevant to performance.
- No free lunch.
- Opportunities are limited. It's PM-driven and top-down.
- Low annual stock compensation compared to peer big tech companies.
- Security devices are a headache. They are very slow to work with, but the admin refuses to replace my 4+ year old workstation due to budget reasons.
- Starting this year, your performance is compared strictly with peers. Engineers are getting stressed out to increase the number of code review counts and pull requests.
- Promo is political. You have to convince other people like PMs and staff engineers, making them like you regardless of the complexity of the project and impact.
Stop laying off employees because of AI efficiency. You can ask employees to improve productivity and create more products.
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I applied online. The process took 8 weeks. Microsoft Software Engineer 2 Interview Experience: Timeline: - Initial screening - Put on hold while interviewing other candidates - Full onsite loop scheduled Total Rounds: 6 (1 screening + 5 onsite)
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A multi-round interview that generally takes the whole day. Each interviewer will ask a series of questions, and at least one interviewer will have you complete a coding problem on the whiteboard.
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Very simple and straightforward. They don't just look for the final answer; they look for how you arrived at the answer. Be sure to talk your way through deriving your answer.
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesFebruary 2, 2026I applied online. The process took 8 weeks. Microsoft Software Engineer 2 Interview Experience: Timeline: - Initial screening - Put on hold while interviewing other candidates - Full onsite loop scheduled Total Rounds: 6 (1 screening + 5 onsite)
Software Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesOctober 1, 2011A multi-round interview that generally takes the whole day. Each interviewer will ask a series of questions, and at least one interviewer will have you complete a coding problem on the whiteboard.
Software Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesAugust 1, 2021Very simple and straightforward. They don't just look for the final answer; they look for how you arrived at the answer. Be sure to talk your way through deriving your answer.
