[tynpeddler]

I've had meta and microsoft cancel on me. I also went all the way through the interview loop at one company, received very positive feedback but was told that they had decided to close the position without filling it. There's definitely a pullback and it started about 2 months ago.

Update: As of now, about half of the companies I've interviewed with at one level or another, have abruptly halted their process due to economic concerns.

[flutas]

I had a similar interview experience with Disney recently. Going so far as them telling me I would have an offer letter in hand within 2 weeks, followed by silence. When I reached back out to them they basically played dumb about it and said some phrase about how "their hiring needs are always changing."

[RhodesianHunter]

You dodged a bullet. They're notoriously poor employer. Think Amazon's culture without the resume cache.

[cwilkes]

It’s coming up to June when MSFT does yearly planning and determining headcount so expect to hear nothing back or that they are in a holding pattern.

This happened to me last year and after asking around happens every year.

[mysql]

Not sure about other places but MSFT recruitment just reached out to me today.

[timClicks]

Just make sure that it's an internal recruiter seeking to fill an actual position, not someone on contract that's just fishing for applicants.

[giaour]

Every team at MSFT does their own hiring, so experiences there won't be uniform.

[pbhjpbhj]

Do they literally do the whole hiring process, or do take use a central hiring department to help them. It sounds really inefficient to have every team duplicate hiring personnel? Though of course you need the team to be in control of the process.

Do the teams organise any other company wide functions in that way? Hardware procurement, maybe?

[giaour]

There is a central HR department that creates job postings, employs recruiters and sourcers, and handles standardized onboarding processes, but conducting interview loops and making hiring decisions is handled by each team individually. As opposed to companies like Google, where as I understand it, you get hired and then find a specific position.

[latency-guy]

It has to be team based. I currently have an active offer with Microsoft, and had multiple conversations with the hiring manager last week.

I have gotten verbal numbers. Nothing in writing though so it could always turn out a dud. Which will suck, but one step at a time.

Satya also announced last week that everyone below ~L67 is getting an adjustment to their salary.

[mijoharas]

Sorry, I'm not familiar with Microsoft's internal structure, but do they have (I assume over) 67 different salary bands?

Wow...

[giaour]

For software engineers, the numbers start at 59 (as in, a new grad hire is an L59 on their first day): https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Amazon,Microsoft&trac...

[hiq]

This is most likely very team-/location-dependent.