Thoughts about MSFT
Thoughts about MSFT
Great company for tech guys. Great benefits, probably better than 80% of large corporations.
Consider there are more than 10,000 FTE working here. Double that for vendors.
It's very hard to stand out and move up in the company.
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Software Engineer II
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. The interview process consisted of five technical rounds. About one week after the first interview, I was invited to complete three consecutive technical interviews in one afternoon.
Software Engineer II
1. Recruiter phone call 2. Filter by Senior SDE 3-4. Video interview with SDE II and Senior SDE (coding and system design from resume) 5. Video interview with Principal (coding, system design, and project experiences from resume)
Software Engineer II
First Round interview: * Go through your resume. * Determine whether a tree is a BST. * Implement the merge sorting algorithm. Second Round interview: * Go through your resume. * Explain how to design a MapReduce program for the word counting task
Software Engineer II
Shanghai, Shanghai, ChinaAugust 3, 2026I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. The interview process consisted of five technical rounds. About one week after the first interview, I was invited to complete three consecutive technical interviews in one afternoon.
Software Engineer II
Shanghai, Shanghai, ChinaApril 1, 20221. Recruiter phone call 2. Filter by Senior SDE 3-4. Video interview with SDE II and Senior SDE (coding and system design from resume) 5. Video interview with Principal (coding, system design, and project experiences from resume)
Software Engineer II
Shanghai, Shanghai, ChinaMarch 1, 2021First Round interview: * Go through your resume. * Determine whether a tree is a BST. * Implement the merge sorting algorithm. Second Round interview: * Go through your resume. * Explain how to design a MapReduce program for the word counting task
