Microsoft recruiters are the most unprofessional
I've done enough interviews with companies to have a good benchmark of recruiters in big tech. Through my entire job searching, I've never seen recruiters as unprofessional as MS recruiters. My first bad experience was before I join Amazon when a recruiter just didn't get back to me AT ALL after my on-site interview. Not even a rejection email. Then another contract recruiter reached out, asking to do an OA. I cleared it and was pending scheduling an on-site. I didn't get an email for days, asking the recruiter for an update and getting this error that email doesn't exist lol. I'm guessing he changed his job. Then now, a recruiter sent me this cheesy email about MS opportunities. I set a time to talk to her. A day before meeting, I got an offer and sent her an email that I recently got this offer but still like to see how much MS can match. She didn't show up for meeting and never replied to my email :) I've never had anything close to this with any other company.
I can say same thing about Amazon.
I didn't have a bad experience with them but I believe you. You can tell a lot about a company's culture from the recruiters' behavior.
💯 Msft recruiters are the worst.
A problem with some Microsoft recruiters is that some of them are temps/vendors, which might not yield the best experience for those in the recruiting pipeline (this includes those who are internal).
Agreed, I have interviewed around and Microsoft has the worst recruiters by FAR. My hypothesis is they are contractors and could not care less. In an intro call, my recruiter didn’t show up because she claimed she didn’t have my phone number and said wasn’t on my resume. I’m not sure what the advantage is of lying about something so blatantly obvious, but I did include my number in an email and it is also listed at the top of my resume. I interviewed for a hiring event, which has positions available all over, and I mentioned multiple times to my recruiter that I am not interested in relocating outside of the Bay Area. When I received an offer, she mentioned I was matched with a team in Seattle. When I brought it up again, she said she will look for teams for me in the Bay Area. Over the next month, I emailed her weekly about updates and she got back to me every few weeks saying we are still looking and then ghosted me :) I also had the courtesy to let her know I had accepted another offer (Uber) and she didn’t respond to that either :)
Can't agree more ...MS recruiting process can be daunting and they can abscond at any time and even when u get an offer sometimes it can be lost in recruiter translation unless you are extremely lucky
Yeah I had a pretty bad experience with the recruiter and also with the interviewer. What funny was I had two for loops and the interviewer told me time complexity would be always O(n^2) although it was O(n). From then I decided I never want to work for that team.
It's the recruiters.. they keep changing companies like everyone so don't be surprised if you have same experience at other places. Places like Microsoft suck more due to lower pay so we get to hire budding talent more often - true for recruiters as well. Also, Microsoft uses contractors a lot.
Does their email address start with v-?
MSFT recruiter was my favorite of all, very polite supportive and responsive. Just one data point. Do you have a competitive profile?