Love It <3
Love It <3
Great work/life balance! It's no secret Microsoft treats their interns well.
Work on real projects, making effective changes.
Employees are friendly and helpful. Often they will drop everything to help you with your problem. Interns generally get priority because of the short time frame we're there.
Transparency: If you ask, you'll get an answer.
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Lots of legacy code, and not all of it is up to current programming standards there. However, this is to be expected in a large and old company.
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Recruiting for full-time offers can be vicious and try to play mind games. Engineering management can combat this, as they are generally very friendly and open.
Adjust training/bonuses for recruiters so they are not incentivized to use these tactics.
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Software Engineer Intern
Very straightforward, two back-to-back thirty-minute technical interviews that had a combination of LeetCode easy and medium questions, along with some behavioral questions that were sprinkled in there.
Software Engineering Intern
It was one round, two interviews: one technical and one behavioral. It took about a month to get the interview request and a week to hear back. The behavioral round also had some minimal technical questions.
SWE Intern
I got a referral from the TNT program, which allowed me to skip the phone screen and other interviews. I got to the final round and had back-to-back interviews with a Software Engineer and a Product Manager. Both interviews were mostly behavioral, wi
Software Engineer Intern
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 21, 2025Very straightforward, two back-to-back thirty-minute technical interviews that had a combination of LeetCode easy and medium questions, along with some behavioral questions that were sprinkled in there.
Software Engineering Intern
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 20, 2025It was one round, two interviews: one technical and one behavioral. It took about a month to get the interview request and a week to hear back. The behavioral round also had some minimal technical questions.
SWE Intern
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 4, 2025I got a referral from the TNT program, which allowed me to skip the phone screen and other interviews. I got to the final round and had back-to-back interviews with a Software Engineer and a Product Manager. Both interviews were mostly behavioral, wi
