Better culture, slower growth
Better culture, slower growth
Overall, the environment at Microsoft is conducive to work-life balance and facilitates authentic connection and collaboration with coworkers.
Managers mostly actually care, and your feedback is respected.
Microsoft is a large company, and there are definitely still pockets of management that do not subscribe to the new culture, preferring to micromanage and exert top-down pressure to conform.
Also, being a large company, your progress in your career is somewhat slower.
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 4, 2025Very 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
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