Microsoft is a comfortable and safe place to start and grow in your career, and also to end your career. Lateral movement is very common, and most of the time you'll be surrounded by stellar people.
It can be a bit slow-paced. Regardless of their efforts, it will always be a giant beast of an operation that will struggle to be agile and responsive.
I got the invitation link, completed and passed every test case successfully, but surprisingly received a rejection the following week without any clear explanation, even though my performance met all expectations.
Very thorough, with lots of different steps. You need to be very prepared. It's a very corporate process, with lots of schmoozing. You'll have an introduction to different people. There are multiple interviews, including panel interviews, phone scree
4 rounds: * LeetCode - repeating words * Behavioural - 4 questions (STAR format) * LeetCode - Computation time * System Design - Design an IDE
I got the invitation link, completed and passed every test case successfully, but surprisingly received a rejection the following week without any clear explanation, even though my performance met all expectations.
Very thorough, with lots of different steps. You need to be very prepared. It's a very corporate process, with lots of schmoozing. You'll have an introduction to different people. There are multiple interviews, including panel interviews, phone scree
4 rounds: * LeetCode - repeating words * Behavioural - 4 questions (STAR format) * LeetCode - Computation time * System Design - Design an IDE