Results are in....

I felt my interview with Microsoft last week went well.

I interviewed with a recruiter and 4 technical people, 2 people with the Microsoft Outlook Group and 2 people with the Authoring Group (ie Word, Publisher, etc). I got general interview questions like my background and experience. Then I got the coding questions each one of the interviewers had me write code on a white board in their office. I found this part kind of fun.

The most frustrating part was that none of them would give me any feedback as to how I was doing or how I compared to other interviewees. It is supposedly a company policy not to provide this feedback for liability issues, and they all strongly followed that policy.

I guess overall it was a fun experience, and I was prepared to just accept the fact that I got a free trip and a tour of some of the buildings at Microsoft. At least until today when I got my official offer from them.

Both the Outlook and Authoring group gave me an offer, but I had to choose which one I was more interested in and that was my official offer from Microsoft. I choose the Outlook group. I have until next week to accept the offer.

Now my dilemma is that I will probably be getting an offer from IBM’s Extreme Blue Internship program too. Which to choose?????? In some ways I hope I don’t get an offer from IBM so my decision will be easier.

What to do?

Anyone else who has ever had to entertain an offer from IBM and Microsoft have any advise on making a choose?

9 Comments

  • Either way you look at it... WIN! Great job and good luck! I hope to land an internship with MS one day...

  • Congratulations on getting the job offer and good luck with your decision.

  • Consider an internship as a part of your education. This means that you should pick the internship which will offer you the ability to learn as much as possible about the FIELD you want to learn as much as possible about. Example: if you want to do databases in the future, you shouldn't be messing with outlook ;)



    Congratulations with your internship offer, as it seems hard to get in at MS. So pick the internship wisely, don't be fooled by the glamour and glitter.

  • Thanks for your congratulations everyone and thanks for the feedback Frans (FYI I'm not really interested in databases).

  • Hi,



    Congrats on your internship! I will be interviewing for an internship on the 1st week of March for an SDE postn.



    Could you tell me what kind of coding Q's you were asked...were you asked any puzzles ?



    Thanks...







  • Congratulations!

    I have been doing a little bit of finding on the web for typical microsoft questions. The problem is most sites repeat the same questions. Were your interview questions completely different or some repeated?



    All the best!

  • congrats!!!!



    how long did you have to wait for an unofficial offer (email or phone call)? i am waiting for the results of my interview last week

  • It took about 2 weeks to hear I got a second interview. Then I interviewed at MS on a Friday and I got a phone call the next tuesday with an offer.

  • How long does it normally take to get the first call after you've submitted your resume? I submitted my resume 3 weeks ago and there has been nothing from them yet. The HR tells me that it'd normally take anywhere between 2-5 weeks for the resume to be prescreened.

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