• Growth Mindset.
• Customer Obsessed
• One Microsoft
• Diverse and inclusive
• Making a Difference

Software Engineer Levels

• SDE(59) 100K-145K
• SDE (60) 120-175K
• SDE (61) 150K-200K
• SED (62) 150K 220K

Senior

• SDE (63) 175k-275k
• SDE (64) 210k-275k

Principal

• SDE( 65) 250k-385k
• SDE (66) 300k-400k
• SDE (67) 430k-550k

Partner

• SDE (68) 
• SDE (69) 

Distinguished Engineer (70)

Technical Fellow (80)

Microsoft makes a lot of software and hardware products, below are some of their popular product offerings:

• Internet Explorer
• Microsoft Office
• Azure Cloud
• Xbox 360
• Visual Studio
• MS-DOS
• Bing Search Engine
• Windows OS
• Outlook and Exchange

Microsoft competes with a large number of companies in both software and hardware categories. Some of the top Microsoft competitors are:

• Apple
• Cisco
• Google
• Facebook 
• IBM
• Oracle
• Salesforce
• SAP
• Okta
•  Proofpoint. 

Microsoft provides a good number of employee benefits.Below are some of their key employee benefits:

• 15 days paid vacation, 10 paid sick level, 2 personal days.
• Parental Leave.
• Onsite Medical Centers
• Child Care and Tuition Assistance
• Health, vision, and dental insurance.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• 401k with 50% match.
• Social Clubs and Financial Planning
• Commuter Assistance

• What is the complexity of lookup/insert for a linked list?
• A hash table? How would you implement an hash table?
• Given 4 coins of values 1, 5, 10, and 20, find all the combinations of coins that can add up to K.  
• Given the head of a linked list, write a program in your language of choice to return the middle node of the list.  
• Find the longest palindrome in a string.
• Given two very large timestamped sorted log files that do not fit in memory (possibly on different machines), merge them in timestamp order. 
• Given a list of n unsorted key-value tuples which are too large to fit in memory, return the k tuples with the greatest value where n is several orders of magnitude greater than k
• Write a function, that, given a paragraph as input, outputs the paragraph with all the words reversed.  
• Determine if a linked list is circular. 
• Find max continuous sum in array.
• Find the common ancestor in a binary tree.  
• Implement a LRU cache.  
• Find the next larger element in a BST.  
• Reverse a singly linked list.  
• Edit distance, given two strings A and B, find the minimum number of steps required to convert A to B.

• Design a garbage collection system.
• Design a scalable metric collection service.
• Design a hierarchical database to store server configuration.
• Design Google Maps.
• Design an API Rate limiter.
• Design Twitter News Feed.
• Design Bitly, URL shortener.

• Why Microsoft?
• Tell me about your project you are most proud of?
• How did you handle a task where you had a deadline that you couldn’t meet?
• Tell me time when you failed?
• Tell me time when you recommended something and it was not well received?
• Tell me time when you gave feedback to your peer?
• Tell me time when you have to make a pivot and choose a different approach or solution.
• Tell me a time you had a conflict with your peer and how did you resolve it?
• Tell me about the constructive feedback you have received?
• Tell me a time you disagreed with your management?