Microsoft

I placed second in our school's Microsoft-sponsored coding challenge. Afterward, I gave the competition organizers my resume. A few weeks later, I was contacted by Microsoft recruiters. They requested a one-on-one interview with a software engineer w

Update: I'm glad I finally got rejected and got to the end of this "nightmare". You don't know who your recruiter is, and they care even less who you are. Everyone you can reach ignores you or is indifferent. Thank you, Microsoft. Sincerely. Bad ex

The interviewers were very nice. Applicants are dual-tracked for PM and SE roles, but the interviews focused mainly on the technical side of things. They didn't really care about language choice or writing 100% proper code on the whiteboard. They c