Principal Technical Program Manager at Microsoft
About the role
Cloud Operations Innovation (COI) is the organization that builds, operates, and continuously evolves the infrastructure behind the Microsoft Cloud, powering services used by more than 95% of Fortune 500 companies. COI is responsible for the full datacenter lifecycle from global planning and site acquisition through design, construction, deployment, operations, and eventual decommissioning, spanning 400 datacenters across more than 70 Azure regions, connected by over 600,000 kilometers of fibe…
Interview process at Microsoft
Balanced - coding, design, and behavioral with equal weight. Less brutally-competitive vibe than FAANG peers but the bar is real. Team-fit matters more than at Amazon.
- Recruiter screen
- Technical phone screen (45 min, 1 coding problem)
- Full loop: 4 rounds - 2 coding, 1 design (system or component), 1 'as-appropriate' (senior manager, cross-functional)
- Team-specific chat
- Offer
Platforms used: internal loop, CodeSignal for some roles
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