Microsoft has provided a predictable, stable career for me
Microsoft has provided a predictable, stable career for me
Benefits, benefits, benefits. Pay and compensation are competitive, and stock awards make it hard to leave. The biggest pro is having the opportunity to move around the company and latch on to a group building a technology you love. They've also changed the controversial review model, which is good.
It really depends on the product group you are in. Some groups pay more attention to work-life balance than others.
Generally, MSFT is slow to adapt to industry trends, but it is starting to come around. This is evident with the advent of open space/team room work environments and using more popular productivity tools and philosophies such as Git and Continuous Delivery.
Throw away what worked for you in the past and rethink everything.
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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
