Has anyone interviewed with Microsoft (non-tech)? Any insight / pro tips for their interview process?

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Yes absolutely you shod study how to partition equliateral triangles in an azure environment otherwise quit while you are ahead

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Well... it’s a place where it’s hard to grow unless you’re in the correct business units. I feel it’s overweight at middle management being a tech company that’s been around for 30years. Many employees don’t have anywhere else to go in Seattle that can pay them a similar wage so they stay, even though many should have left a decade ago...

I feel like there’s a lot of red tape to get through to get things done at MSFT and they look to build it themselves when industry has already done something similar that’s open-sourced.

Again, I haven’t worked there, just talked to many employees during my never-ending career search and I just haven’t found the right Pros to move forward with any of the opportunities presented...

Also, I feel like if you’re directly working on Azure there’s still a lot of room for growth vs other business units throughout the company. Just my 2c’s

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@ SA1 - You hit the nail on the head. This is why a handful of peers who worked at MSFT left after 3-4 years. Getting into the right business unit is tricky. Lots of politics.

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You could say the same thing about the Big 4 with some minor tweaks

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My team was awful and I second the note about there being lots of red tape. However, if your #1 priority is work life balance... they do have that in spades.

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Just curious, why MSFT? I’m looking for Pros to potentially follow up on some offers, so far my Cons outweigh to follow up / Continue the process.

I did. They asked me which product I would eliminate. I answered and the interviewer said that he would lose his job if that product would be eliminated. He then asked for another product I would eliminate and why. A bunch of other tricky questions. This was for an undergrad opp I had 11 out of 12 offers. Micro was the outlier.

SA - why NOT MSFT?

Yeah, I interviewed there for a non-tech internship and passed. Then I did that internship, and never wanted to return. Now I'm at Accenture and am so grateful.

If I haven't disuaded you from applying yet... I found the interviews fun / challenging compared to the other ones I did. I studied their BUs before going in, then I just went in and was myself. All other companies didn't seem to like honest opinions on their products, but Microsoft liked when I told them truthful opinions so long as I had detailed and constructive reasoning. Sometimes they challenge you to see what you do, and they want to see if you stick by what you said or not.

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