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I’ve applied to a Solutions Architect role that requires 1 years worth of experience minimum or preferred 2 years of experience in tech.
Location: Sydney, Australia
I received an offer from Microsoft and have completed all the steps and confirmed my start date last week (on December 11th) which is January 5th, 2026. Now, I am still waiting on the official Employment Agreement document and given holidays are approaching, when can I expect the official contract to arrive? I am worried when I should give notice to my current employer? I would want to avoid giving notice without signing official agreement? I reached out to askHR twice this week but haven't yet got any response from them. Could anyone share their experience on the timelines?
My start date is January 5 as well! I had a confirmed start date with my manager on 11/21 and was told I was ok to give notice by them. I didn’t receive the EA until 12/9 though. I had a longer notice period as I wanted to help my current employer as much as possible. I would expect it within the next few days or Monday next week.
You can double check with hiring manager, but once you have a start date confirmed, you should be ok from what I understood.
Thanks! Kind of stressed out on whether should I give the notice to my current employer or wait for the final agreement. I have followed with askHR yesterday having my manager in CC hopefully they speed up the process.
My interview status is scheduling from 10th December what that mean? I will get interview or I'm just in short circle of people ?
I interviewed with Microsoft for a Data Scientist role toward the end of November. Last week, the recruiter called to confirm that I had successfully cleared the interview and mentioned they would follow up the next day to discuss the level and compensation details. I haven’t received that call yet (been 3 working days), and today I noticed that my application status in the Action Center has changed to “Not Selected.” This role I applied for was through the older career portal. Anyone who interviewed with microsoft recently has experienced similar? Not sure what if I will get an offer or rejection!!
I have already followed up with the recruiter but didn't heard back yet, shall I loop in the HM as recruiter in my case was unresponsive from the start and HM reached out initially.
Question about UX Researcher Interview Questions (not a quantitative role)
I have entered the interview process for a UX research position on Microsoft's Azure Data Research team (likely in the Redmond office).
If you have had the UX research interviews in the past year, please share your experience:
What questions does the recruiter ask in the phone interview?
What were the next steps and interviews after the recruiter interview?
What questions did they ask you in the next interview? And what were your winning answers?
Any advice? Anything that actually helps me convince them I am the right person for the role?
Thank you!
Any advice?
Hello. I applied for a position a week ago, a few days after it was posted. If I haven't heard back from a recruiter yet, is it safe to say I'm not being considered? I had a MSFT recruiter reach out to me a few days after applying for a different position I was less qualified for, so I'm a little nervous.
For better or worse, a lack of response means nothing. As long as your applications status hasn't been invalidated, I wouldn't see a lack of reply as necessarily a bad thing.
Hi guys, I had my last interview on the last week of November, and after a week my application status on the old career portal was set to 'completed', but then nothing happened. I messaged my recruiter but didn't get a reply, so after a week I reached out to my HM (so 2 weeks after interview) and was told that they had asked HR to send me an offer the week before, and that I should get the formal offer soon. A few hours later I got an email from the recruiter asking me to reapply for the same job on the new career portal so they can advance it, and after I did it's again silence from them. I followed up with the recruiter and again have not had a reply. Do you think in this case I should follow up with the HM again, since the recruiter seems to only reply to them? I'm getting a little worried because I feel like they might just end up forgetting about me or finding a better candidate in the meantime. Obviously its the end of the year so I understand things can be busy for everyone, but I'm kind of confused as to what is taking so long for a response, especially if they've already been instructed to send me an offer (sorry if this sounds arrogant but I don't know how else to put it 😭)
As someone who has at interviewed people for roles within Microsoft, don't underestimate the hiring manager's desire to get you hired and working. Finding the right candidate for a role can be deeply frustrating and time consuming for the hiring team, so it's absolutely in their best interest to push HR to do their jobs rather than risk losing you and needed to restart the process.
HR at MSFT really is that awful, folks. Sorry you need to deal with it.
Thank you, I'll try follow up with the HM today!
I'm kind of in the same situation, haha. The only difference is that the job hasn't been listed to the new career portal and I haven't messaged the HM yet.
Any news for you?
Talk to the HM. They should have your back. And if they don't, you didn't want the job anyway.
Stay in touch with the hiring manager. It is strange that they have asked you to reapply but if the hiring manager has offered you the job it can take some time for them to get the offer out. For me it took a couple of weeks to sort out contracts, offer letter etc
Yeah I'd be happy to wait tbh it's just that I have another company that I think is also trying to send me an offer soon, so I'd really like to make sure I have a proper contract if I have to reject that one.. :') I'll message the HM, thank you!
Hi, I had my loop interview last week (Dec 4th) and haven’t heard back from the recruiter yet. I noticed that my application status had moved to “Inactive” with a “Not Selected” status yesterday (Dec 12), and I wanted to check if this could be an error or if I should wait for formal confirmation from the recruiter. Thank you.
Unfortunately this likely is a hard no.
Any idea how Azure Virtual Desktop org is? Work and the engineering culture
Hey everyone. I recently got and signed my offer. Right now I’m going through HireRight’s background check. One thing that surprised me was that they only asked for my current address and highest education achieved, and nothing else. After submitting the form they only asked that I upload my diploma, which I did. For context my position is not in the US. Anyone have a similar experience?
This sounds about right.
We do deeper background checks when you need to work with government aligned stuff.
Has anyone else experienced managers at the data centers making staffing changes all of the sudden with absolutely zero transparency?
Yes.
Are you getting anything for a real believable reason or just fluff?
Nothing official or useful, really. I have my own thoughts, but since I'm just rank and file, they're not very interesting.
I completed my second round of interview with hiring manager on 20th nov still waiting for results. Can anyone help me what are my chances. the action centre shows the status as scheduled
It'll likely be a little bit, a lot of us are on vacation for the holidays and such. I know at least my team isn't moving forward anything during December.
In which location are you working currently. Also is it because of the year end budget issues?. Will I have one more round? but the second round is taken by the hiring manager
A small note - our Fiscal Year begins in July.
A lot of teams pause during this period because they simply don't have enough staff to do full hiring loops.
My suggestion would be to reach out to your recruiter and express that you're still excited for the role and that you're ready to discuss next steps.
Unfortunately no one can tell you. But you have not been rejected and that’s good. Usually they reject faster than they update candidates for next stages. In my case it took about two weeks and a half after the last interview until a verbal offer. Good luck
What certs can help me break into Microsoft solutions specialist role?
Hi, I spent 5 years as an Azure Sales Specialist in the UK. At a bare minimum I would make sure that you have Azure Fundamentals (AZ-100). The infrastructure and data & AI roles have recently been merged so it's also worth having AI Fundamentals and Data Fundamentals.
These will help you in the technical interview and will give you a good foundational knowledge. Usually they are not looking for you to be a full blown Azure Specialist at the interview stage. It's more important to evidence that you have a growth mindset, an appetite for learning and valuable experience.
Thanks. This is great advice! How technical can the interview get?
The fundamental level certs should get you through, I had only done AZ100. They are trying to find your technical level, so usually they will keep asking questions until you don't know the answer. It's fine not to know the answer, the worst thing you can do is try to blag it.
I'm interested in this too. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated
I'll add a bit to what techsalescoach said above, but it really comes down to what role, and what level, you're interviewing for. I interviewed for a relatively senior field technical role in late 2019, and I was absolutely hammered on not just my Azure knowledge, but my broader ability to use it to address real customer issues. I had exclusively been working with AWS for the two years previously, and I essentially studied to pass the AZ-300 exam to prepare for the interview loop.
This isn't a hard rule or anything, but for deep technical roles (L64 and above) I'd absolutely want to be able to speak to the entire content of the relevant Expert Level exams (Az-300, AZ-400, SC-100), if not have the actual exam passed. The more technical depth you can display, the better your chances of getting hired are.