Do not join CSEO
- 1 hour telephonic + 3 F2F rounds on campus (2 by product management and 1 by engineering management). Ideally, this is followed by an F2F round with the Hiring Manager
- The role was for their internal product (CSEO, known as MS IT earlier) for which MS is recruiting at this moment @ Hyderabad
- All PM interviewers asked same questions - on product vision, goals, product, technology, process, my contribution, roadmap and data
- Unlike regular PM interviews, no questions were asked on product design
- While the telephonic interview and 1st round went smoothly, the 2nd F2F panel did not seem convinced with my responses (although I gave exactly same responses in the first 2 rounds). At one point, it felt as if the 2nd panel was humiliating me and the product that I was working on
- On campus, I was told by the recruiter that I cleared the 2nd interview and each round was an elimination round. So, I waited 3 hours for the next interviewer (EM round)
- After EM round, I was told by HR that they ll get back to me later as the hiring manager was not around
- Next week, I was told that I didn't qualify the 2nd F2F interview round and they will get back once they have a consolidated feedback
- Till now, HR has not bothered to get back or update status on Microsoft Portal. She kept saying that she doesn't have feedback of all interviewers. After few days, she was unresponsive.
If you really respect a candidate's time, you would have the courtesy to atleast tell them about rejection. All it takes is an email or a phone call, which should be automated by the very team that was interviewing me!
Heard that other teams within Microsoft are much efficient wrt Recruitment but I cannot comment on it.