Life was bleak
Life was bleak
I loved all the benefits provided by Microsoft. It was honestly hard to keep track of everything to ensure that I got the value out of it all, but that's a good problem to have.
You know how Microsoft is supposed to be the chill big tech company with a great work-life balance? That might be true in some sections of the company, but my team and the org around us was not that.
At one point, we hired someone from AWS to the team, and after a few months, she left to return to her old job because the work-life balance was so much better. Our WLB score on the employee survey was 20/100, whereas the average across all of Microsoft was 75/100.
Microsoft pay isn't enough to put up with the BS we had to deal with.
I used to think that they cared a good deal about diversity and inclusion, until they laid off their entire DEI team.
Honestly, not much lower-level management can do because the organization is so political. If you step out of line, you get managed out by the leadership team.
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The difficulty was moderate. You should do LeetCode tagged Microsoft questions. They generally ask from the most recent Microsoft tagged questions. I applied without a referral. There was a technical screening with a hiring manager. Then there were D
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I was contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn. Within a month, my phone screening was scheduled. The phone screening was 45 minutes with one person. Soon after that, I had my in-person interview in Seattle. There were 4+1 rounds of interviews: * F
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The process was an initial screening, followed by two rounds of coding, one system design round, and one Hiring Manager round. It took one month to get the results. They were actively interviewing others. There were LeetCode questions.
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Software Engineer II
Seattle, Washington, United StatesDecember 1, 2015I was contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn. Within a month, my phone screening was scheduled. The phone screening was 45 minutes with one person. Soon after that, I had my in-person interview in Seattle. There were 4+1 rounds of interviews: * F
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesJanuary 19, 2026The process was an initial screening, followed by two rounds of coding, one system design round, and one Hiring Manager round. It took one month to get the results. They were actively interviewing others. There were LeetCode questions.
