A very OK job
A very OK job
- Immediate managers are compassionate and care about your career growth and workload.
- Work-life balance is better than most places (except for on-call).
- Great benefits.
- Huge focus on accessibility and diversity internally and externally.
- Technical debt and ageing infrastructure result in a laborious code build & test cycle.
- On-call can be brutal on low-level cloud teams and heavily damage work-life balance.
- Lack of automation results in lots of "manual labor".
- Generally, a little boring.
- Compensation generally lags behind other big tech companies.
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Software Engineer II
One of my friends working at Microsoft forwarded my resume to a manager there. My resume got attention, and a recruiter contacted me for a phone interview. The person on the phone was really cool. After a short introduction, they started to ask me
Software Engineer II
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.
Software Engineer II
Met with the hiring manager and discussed the role in-depth. We talked about myself (previous experience, Master's thesis, cool things I do for fun). The role also required a DoD Clearance, so we talked about that.
Software Engineer II
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2009One of my friends working at Microsoft forwarded my resume to a manager there. My resume got attention, and a recruiter contacted me for a phone interview. The person on the phone was really cool. After a short introduction, they started to ask me
Software Engineer II
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.
Software Engineer II
Seattle, Washington, United StatesOctober 21, 2025Met with the hiring manager and discussed the role in-depth. We talked about myself (previous experience, Master's thesis, cool things I do for fun). The role also required a DoD Clearance, so we talked about that.
