Software engineer shares how she landed a job with Microsoft India, says consistency is key

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She has been working with the company for over a year and wrote that 'consistent preparation and active participation in competitions helped her prepare for the interview rounds'...

Hoping to help out other job seekers in landing a role at major tech giants, the Satya Nadella-led company's employee wrote, "I applied for Microsoft Engage for full-time roles, and once my resume was shortlisted, I had to give an online test which had 2 medium-hard level DSA problems..

She added, "I could clear that round and was shortlisted for 28 day Microsoft Engage Mentorship project where I had to work on and end to end project to solve a specific problem, which was the theme for that year..

Talking about what helped her prepare for the interview rounds, she added, "My consistent preparation and active participation in competitions helped me prepare for the interview rounds..

In his email to employees announcing the first round of layoffs in January this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote that the company is letting go of employees because of "macroeconomic conditions and changing customer priorities."..

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