Hi there, A year ago I was determined to get a job at Microsoft, I like how the company has changed under the new leadership and my resume was able to get me some traction from HR and a few interviews. After 13 on-site interviews with the company and no offers, I wondered if I should close that chapter of my life. I still have some additional on-sites about to schedule for the next week. I asked a few friends that worked at the company and they shared with me a similar explanation. "Microsoft wants to show they are a diverse company, and since you are Latino they will invite you to the interviews only to increase their diversity but with no intention to extend you an offer. They will never give you an offer. Move on." It's hard to believe that a company of the size and global reach of Microsoft will play those king of games, but after a long year of dealing with this, I wonder how much truth is behind their practice. YOE 25 years. #microsoft #diversity #hiring
I don’t believe there is much truth to this. Companies make decisions based on numbers. If they believe they can make a profit from hiring you, they will do so.
I don’t know about Microsoft in particular but more companies are tying interviewing diverse candidates as part of manager assessment. So it’s possible. It’s the corporate world’s version of the Rooney Rule in the NFL, where a black candidate has to be interviewed for each vacancy.
After 13 interviews, one has to question, are you qualified for the job?
yea I heard diverse candidates typically don't have a lower bar but they sometimes get to skip technical screen directly to onsite (have friends that got this) or they get more interviews than normal candidates wouldn't 13 interviews meant they gave OP like 6-8 more interviews than normal to try and hire them?
Granted: some teams will really do that. They need to interview candidates from underrepresented minorities and will bring in any warm body to fulfill the requirement. Yet, it may be time to be a bit self-critical: if you failed a dozen+ interview opportunities then it may not be the company only. Maybe you are applying for the wrong area, too high level, or you just need interview training.
The feedback from my interviews is excellent, and the next on-site comes because the HM refers me and the next team reaches out, I talk to the new HM and quickly scheduling onsite. I doubted myself after so many failing interviews that I decided to invest in a coach. He is as shock as I'm with the same results. The coach was the first person that shared that view on why the results are disappointing.
This is a fairly new requirement as far as I know. With all tech companies paying top dollar for good diverse candidates and msft not being able to even remotely match that, the only thing recruiters are left to do is to drop the bar low and hiring managers to skip on the candidates that weren’t even qualified to get to the on campus interviews in the first place.
Gg🙏. Any advice/suggestions for students like me starting our SWE career next year?
With 25 years of experience, what position are you interviewing for? I imagine hiring that high up happens pretty rarely and requires a very specific set of skills from the candidates.
50% of the opportunities come directly from recruiters finding my profile.
Recruiters spam everyone without even reading profiles most of the time. This week I got an email offering me to interview for an architect position at Amazon. I have 2 years of experience and the listing required at least 8. The email mentioned how well I fit that role.
I don't know that your friends know what they are talking about. I'm not sure companies get any points for just interviewing Latinos... They actually have to hire them for it to be meaningful to their diversity goals.
Actually, they introduced new requirements a few months ago that they can’t interview a non diverse candidate before they interview a diverse one for any managerial positions or senior+. If they can’t find a diverse candidate they have to wait for 6 months to get an exception. So there could be some truth to it, but it is a fairly recent thing.
I'm all for diversity but that sounds a bit much.
They will prefer interviewing diverse candidates to bring in diversity. You still have to clear the interview and you don’t get a lower bar if you are from diverse background. You are really putting a very big blame on a very reputed company. There is a latino community at Msft, so, stop throwing blame on them and start preparing well.
Am I blaming Latinos? I’m one of them!
You are blaming Msft?
Did they give you any feedback? If not try to ask what could you improve in order to get hired.
The majority of the orgs keep it in the family. If you’re an outsider, you’ll only be hired if they have no other choice and are made to hire you. Merit does not come into play. The internal channel is full of racist and misogynistic rants and about diversity hiring. Not much has changed from the MS of 10 years ago except the stock price.
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I dont think they would pass on you if you have had really good skills. Why would they spend money on the interviews if they know 100% they wont hire you? If you have the skills why would they NOT hire you?