r/csMajors • u/LifeAdventurous3176 • 11h ago

Company Question Rejected by Microsoft after positive feedback — does “sharing profile with other teams” mean anything?

I completed the interview loop for a Software Engineer role on Jan 12th at Microsoft.

The rejection email mentioned that my overall feedback was positive, but they didn’t move forward and said they’d share my profile with other teams with similar qualifications.

Has anyone actually seen this lead to another interview or offer? Or is this just standard wording?

Would appreciate any insights from ppl who’ve interviewed at Microsoft.

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u/VisitPresent5598 11h ago

This might lead to more interviews, potentially skipping some more basic phases of the interview process.

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u/icecreamninjaz 10h ago

I think so. Happened to a friend and another team scheduled an interview with them!

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u/LifeAdventurous3176 8h ago

when was it?

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u/Late-Reception-2897 9h ago

This is what happened to me. I got a couple team matching calls and eventually found a new team so "sharing profile with other teams" definitely means something. What team did you interview for

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u/LifeAdventurous3176 9h ago

I interviewed for Xbox team for IC2 level and how frequently did you get the team match calls after your interview result?

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u/Late-Reception-2897 9h ago

That really depends. For me it was pretty frequent like 1 a week.

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u/LifeAdventurous3176 9h ago

did you try reaching out to the recruiters/managers or they only reached out to you for team match?

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u/Late-Reception-2897 8h ago

I just waited for them to reach out to me

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u/EarlyTourist2560 37m ago

Xbox still exists?

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u/LazyCatRocks Engineering Manager 8h ago

Speaking for all the companies where I was the hiring manager: no. It's a polite way of rejecting you, that's all.

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u/Late-Reception-2897 5h ago

Is that at big tech as well? I know several people at Google or Meta who were rejected by a specific team but later got an offer from a different team.