Bad work culture
Bad work culture
Good benefits and salary. Your stock compensation will do well over time. Satya is also an admirable leader.
Work culture can be quite toxic. Your skillset might only be trained to work at Microsoft and nowhere else.
Things progress slowly. Every decision takes weeks as multiple leadership and sister teams need to be consulted. High bureaucracy.
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I received an OA. The next week, I was scheduled for three rounds of interviews. This was for a new grad role. The rounds were HLD and behavioral, and LeetCode and behavioral for the other two. The questions were medium-level on LeetCode, and HLD was
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Redmond, WashingtonFebruary 9, 2026I received an OA. The next week, I was scheduled for three rounds of interviews. This was for a new grad role. The rounds were HLD and behavioral, and LeetCode and behavioral for the other two. The questions were medium-level on LeetCode, and HLD was
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United StatesOctober 1, 2021At the beginning of the interview, the interviewer introduced himself and what he does in his team. We then went through my resume and were asked coding problems related to data structures.
