Microsoft is a big company, and there are lots of different divisions working on different products. They have different cultures, and there's no end to interesting projects to work on.
You're encouraged to move around within the company to find a good fit--but you still have to go through a lengthy interview process with the new team each time.
Work/life balance seems to be slowly declining across the company.
There are no QA teams anymore in most places (because quality is the devs' responsibility), but it's rare to find a team that is willing to allocate enough time to actually write sufficient tests.
This makes it hard to write code at quality without just working extra hours.
The company is constantly reorganizing its hierarchy (about twice a year), leaving lots of projects in chaos.
I have many times had our successful product moved to another team simply because "it's not in our charter anymore."
First round OA with two questions, about LeetCode medium. Final round: three technical interviews, with coding questions. Since the JD mentioned language C, the coding question was done with C.
I had a 45-minute phone call with a recruiter regarding an engineering position. They discussed the specific team I was applying to join, as well as Microsoft's workplace culture in general.
The interview was easy. Most of the questions they asked were LeetCode easy. Unfortunately, I haven't been selected even after answering everything perfectly. I think they rejected me because of the ongoing visa issues.
First round OA with two questions, about LeetCode medium. Final round: three technical interviews, with coding questions. Since the JD mentioned language C, the coding question was done with C.
I had a 45-minute phone call with a recruiter regarding an engineering position. They discussed the specific team I was applying to join, as well as Microsoft's workplace culture in general.
The interview was easy. Most of the questions they asked were LeetCode easy. Unfortunately, I haven't been selected even after answering everything perfectly. I think they rejected me because of the ongoing visa issues.