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Microsoft India Hiring Process - 2015

Hi!

Thank you for your interest in the Microsoft! It is an exciting time for us at Microsoft and we believe there is

no better time for you to join us. Below are some of the questions which you might have as you begin your

process with us.

Why Microsoft?

Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Which means the work we do and the things we create will empower billions of people around the

world. Every day.

Each day our world creates new technology: devices, apps, and services. Which means new ways to

do things, new ways to connect, new things to learn. While each holds the promise of helping us

get more done with less effort, they also can become one more thing competing for our scarce time

and attention.

That’s why we need to rethink the way we make technology, and not simply make more. We need

to reinvent productivity. Microsoft is helping people achieve more by giving them the best possible

tools for any moment.

At Microsoft, you’ll have an amazing range of opportunities. You might become an expert in a

particular field or build proficiencies across many areas. You might be an individual contributor or

become a manager. Because we have so many kinds of jobs in so many different places, you can

stay in one building, city, or country, or you can cross borders—in person, or virtually.

Your career and professional development is a partnership between you and your manager,

reinforced by our numerous career resources. And as much as we’re here to support you, we believe

your career is an individual adventure. You drive your career development plan while your manager

assists and coaches you, and we provide a framework with the tools and resources you need to

succeed.

One thing is certain, you’ll never stand still at Microsoft.

Our philosophy: an individual adventure

Defined roles. Each of our jobs has clear requirements for success but lots of room to push

boundaries and grow. Managers provide ongoing support, but ultimately you are empowered to

shape your personal experience and chart your own career path. You can go deep in an area of

expertise, or move across functions or businesses to experience a breadth of opportunity.

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Career path options. You don’t have to be a manager to move up. Both individual contributor and

management careers progress all the way through senior levels—we highly value both.

Movement between job families. We define desired results and consistently apply them for all job

families available across our teams. This makes it easy for you to learn about each job family and

identify and develop.

Specific to MSIT, you will join in as a MACH engineer. A MACH engineer is a part of the global

MACH Program which is for a tenure of 2 years. This program allows you to have a flavor of two

different teams one each year, and gives you the opportunity to explore your skills and aspirations.

You will have mentors assigned to guide you through this process. Microsoft also gives you the

opportunity to choose between Individual Contributor and managerial roles later in your career.

About the businesses

1. What is MSIT?

Microsoft IT India (MSIT India) — located in Hyderabad — is the largest IT operations center outside

of Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. It is the offshore arm of the Microsoft IT Engineering

Divisions, which employs a host of niche technologies towards developing mission-critical business

applications for Microsoft Corporation.

MSIT India employs a pool of talented IT professionals who consider the Centre as a great place to

build their career, and help the customers and partners realize their full potential. It’s the state-of-

the-art technologies along with the world-class process rigor, which makes it an employer of choice.

MSIT India has grown to deliver almost 50% of Microsoft internal IT applications requirements.

Besides, it also manages the organization’s global data centers, corporate network, 10,000+ servers

and various other infrastructure management activities from Hyderabad. MSIT India builds and

delivers mission critical solutions and services that enable Microsoft to run and manage its business

globally, and thereby help Microsoft customers and partners realize their full potential.

2. What is IDC?

Microsoft India (R&D) Private Limited, a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation, set up Microsoft India

Development Center (MSIDC) at Hyderabad in 1998. Over the course of the past 14 plus years, we

have expanded to become one of Microsoft Corporation’s largest R&D centers outside its

headquarters in Redmond.

MSIDC is a part of Microsoft Corporation’s strategy of global shared development where teams

across geographies collaborate to build great software and services. Our development teams are

aligned to four engineering groups at Microsoft Corporation, namely Application & Services (A&S),

Cloud & Enterprise (C&E), Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) and Operating Systems (OS).

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3. What are the teams at MSIT?

Corporate Functions IT (CFIT): It supports the execution of Microsoft’s business models through the

corporate functions of Human Resources, Legal and Corporate Affairs, Finance and IT. Corporate

Functions focuses on internal processes that include — Recruit to Retire (HR), Counsel to Resolution

(LCA), Plan to Earnings Release (Finance), and Information Strategy to Systems Retirement (IT).

Enterprise Commerce IT (ECIT): It integrates Microsoft products and services into channel program

offerings for sale to customers around the world. It supports pricing, contract negotiation, order

management, product fulfillment, entitlements and invoicing processes. It works closely with the ERP

Platforms (EAS) team to help Microsoft and the channel partners to deliver the right software and

service offerings to the right customers and markets at the right time.

Marketing Products and Services IT: This has a combination of two business process areas, which

are — Ideation to Availability (I2A) and Fulfillment to Customer Value (F2CV). The function focuses

to revolutionize and connect the way Microsoft develops, markets and delivers its products and

services. It works to provide agile engineering for the devices and services era, responsive and

integrated services for marketers and simplified and scalable partner engagement.

Strategic Enterprise Services IT (SESIT): It provides enterprise processes, services, and standards. It

provides high-quality enterprise services that drive product and operational excellence, agility and

customer centricity while leveraging standards to reduce complexity and costs.

Devices and Services IT: It is a globally dispersed group, dedicated to creating high-value

experiences to light up Microsoft's devices and services strategy. The group creates leading-edge

experiences that connect people, processes, technology and information with today’s needs and

tomorrow’s trends, producing results, powerful enough to influence Microsoft product, business and

IT groups inspiring the customers. The group constitutes the following

Business Planning & Governance

End User Application & Data Services

Relationship Management Services

Client & Site Experience

Customer Reference & Readiness Services

User Productivity Services

Enterprise Infrastructure Services IT: It leverages strength and capabilities to develop the network

infrastructure as a strategic differentiator and optimizes high-value activities based on devices and

services delivery. The segment works towards building a resilient and agile foundation for Microsoft

to help position the company and deliver a competitive advantage at the same time.

4. What are the teams at MSIDC?

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Teams at MSIDC are aligned to four engineering groups at Microsoft Corporation, namely

Application & Services (A&S), Cloud & Enterprise (C&E), Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) and

Operating Systems (OS).

Application & Services

At Microsoft Corporation, this group includes broad applications and services core technologies in

productivity, communication, search and other information categories.

At MSIDC, Apps, Media & Publishing (AMP), Bing, Bing Ads and Microsoft Office Division teams are

aligned to this engineering group.

Cloud & Enterprise

At Microsoft Corporation, this includes back-end technologies like datacenter, database and specific

technologies for enterprise IT scenarios and development tools.

At MSIDC, Developer Tools, Windows Azure, Windows Server & System Center (WSSC), Networking

and Failover Replication (FR) teams are aligned to this engineering group.

Microsoft business solutions

At Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Business Solutions includes the portfolio of Microsoft Dynamics

products and services, as well as Microsoft Health Solutions.

At MSIDC, the Microsoft Dynamics CRM is aligned to this engineering group.

Operating Systems

At Microsoft Corporation, this spans all OS work for console, to mobile device, to PC, to back-end

systems. The core cloud services for the operating system will be in this group.

At MSIDC, Reader and Windows Customer Experience teams are aligned to this engineering group.

5. Do I have a preference on the team I join once I get selected for a particular business?

You can definitely share your choice, however the decision of which team is much more than just a

choice. We follow a very diligent and intense interviewing process, that covers evaluating your skills

not only for being Microsoft fit, but also checking on how well do they match with what is the

requirement in each team. The decision at the time of hiring might be ours but shaping your career

once you join is combined effort of you and Microsoft.

Careers, Roles and Responsibilities

6. What are the Roles at MSIT/IDC which I will be applying for?

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Software Engineer: Job Description for Software Engineers at MSIT:

The Microsoft Academy for College Hires (MACH)–IT is as an accelerated career development

program at MSIT designed to recruit and hire top–performing engineering and business school

graduates across a broad range of roles within IT and aims to cultivate their talent through training,

mentoring and community support.

• Ability to write clean, well-crafted code with an emphasis on quality, simplicity, durability, and

maintainability.

• Consider customer’s perspective and experiences when implementing solutions

• Demonstrate the ability to deliver tasks on time; also exhibit the ability to adapt to change

• Provide estimates; author validation tests; provide timely issue resolutions

• Communicate effectively to surface progress, risks and help needed within the project team

Software Engineer: Job Description for Software Engineers at IDC

• Planning:

• Understanding customer requirements;

• Assisting with project planning, scoping, prioritization;

• Providing estimates; Identifying task ownership

• Design:

• Creating simple, flexible and comprehensive designs;

• Providing and soliciting design feedback

• Implementation:

• Writing quality code at source;

• Authoring validation tests; Providing timely issue resolutions

Preference selection

7. Can I switch between roles/teams? Will there be interviews?

You can switch between roles/teams if the following requirements are met:

o Your interest in the role/team

o Skill set match with the same

o Performance in the current role/team

Yes, there will be interviews for switch between role/team.

It is suggested, you pick this option post the MACH program (in case of MSIT) as that gives you the

flavor of two different teams in the tenure and lets you explore your skills and aspirations.

8. Location? Can I have a preference?

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MSIT: located only in Hyderabad.

IDC: located in Bangalore and Hyderabad. You can provide your preference and we will do our best

to map your profile and location! But we will not be able to guarantee it as depends on the job

openings.

9. Are there International Opportunities?

Yes, there are roles available in the product development groups in Redmond. You can pursue the

opportunities you want based on the following.

Opt your interest in international roles during the online assessment

Basis your profile and online assessment scores, you will have the opportunity to

interview for an international role

10. How soon can I apply for other teams/location?

There is no tenure that needs to be met, before you apply for other roles/teams. However, for MSIT,

it is suggested one does so, post finishing the MACH Program (2 years). As it is designed in a way

to help you shape your career well at Microsoft.

For any other questions or clarifications you can reach out to Microsoft Campus hiring team at the time of

hiring process or email us at college@microsoft.com. You can also contact your placement committee who

will direct your queries to us.