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Updated Apr 22, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Quality Management at Microsoft
Posted Apr 22, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took 2+ weeks)
3 phone interviews. HR, quality expert from the team and the VP for the function.
Face-to-face interviews with the hiring manager and one other manager from their department.
Positive experience overall. Questions were tough, but fair.
HR was pretty standard stuff. Quality guru really drilled into use of various tools.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Project Manager at Microsoft
Posted Mar 21, 2012 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took 2 weeks)
I attended an on-campus interview which consisted of two 30 minute interviews (one technical, the other with product focus) Then got invited to an on-site meeting (but due to visa problems, had to a live meeting instead). Although I was scheduled for 3 interviews that day, they decided not to carry on after the second one.
The on-campus technical interview was very easy. The product one was reasonable.
The first live meeting was like chat rather than an interview. I was asked about my experience (especially in user experience design). Second live meeting was about designing a product and possible way of incorporating it into a Microsoft product.
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(e.g. Today is sunny -> sunny is Today)
You have to write the code in a language of choice
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Finance Intern at Microsoft
Posted Mar 13, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took 4+ weeks)
Initially I was contacted to arrange a phone interview.
The phone interview was very casual, simply running through my CV and they asked about a time when I had dealt with a situation where I had a disagreement with somebody. Before the interview was over they hinted that I had been successful. This all took about 20 mins.
The following week I was sent a confirmation email that I was through to the face to face interview (Final round). On the day I met with the Western Europe Financial controller. For the first 15 mins, I was talked through where the role fit in to the whole organisation. I was given a few details of the day to day job and was told that if I did the role well, there was potential to be offered a full time contract. Following this I was asked to run through my CV and was asked some competency/ behavioural questions. The whole thing took about 45 mins. If I am honest it was a very simply and basic interview with no questions designed to catch anyone out. Having said that, there were few probing questions so you really had to sell yourself.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) at Microsoft
Posted Feb 13, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took 5 weeks)
The initial interview is a regular phone call and then the technical assessment stuff begins. A timed test (some questions to be replied in 30 mins), coding challenges (1 regular question about your expertise and 2 coding questions along with 2 testing questions all to be completed in 2 days), and a Lync call to write code on-the-fly with an experienced MS fellow, and then lastly, another couple of Lync calls to write both code and automated tests, and one call to talk to the group manager. If all goes well, one final call to interview with the director. I suggest that candidates should investigate some MS interview questions and answers which exist on the Internet.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Transactional Specialist at Microsoft
Posted Jan 11, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took 1 week)
I had a telephone interview in which I was asked to describe my previous experiences and jobs. then I have a 1:1 with 2 team leaders. During this interview they asked me about the company and understanding of the role and they gave me an overview of the specific tasks and responsibility related to this position.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Apr 18, 2011 — 1 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took 6 weeks)
I applied online for a Graduate position. Initially, I got set up for a phone interview with an HR. The interview consisted of some behavioral questions and basic technical questions. It's followed by a technical interview with an engineer. Then I was flown to Dublin for on-site interviews. The questions are mostly technical. Nothing was too hard. After that, I got set up for another phone interview with an engineer in Redmond. A week later, I got the response. I didn't get the offer because they don't have enough openings.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Jun 5, 2010 — 3 of 3 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took a day)
Had one short interview on campus, then after 3 months got a phone call for the interview on phone plus had to fill out a pretty boring/long form asking me about my interesting projects etc.
First interview was easy; mostly HR stuff, then they sent me a online test, two questions first was to implement FIFO using LIFO second was on the lines of selecting random nodes from a tree. 2nd question was pretty tough. But I did both of them in 1 hour, compiled and send them the working code.
Then they called up for a technical interview asking following questions
-How would you test an application that takes 3 inputs and draws a triangle? (black box testing)
-Write a data structure class that works as both a Stack and a Queue. Write test cases for them.
-Write code to reverse a linked list. Write test cases.
-Write code to merge-sort 2 linked lists (no duplicates). Write test cases.
-Write code to delete all nodes in a linked list that contain integer values that are odd numbers. Write test cases.
-Write code to delete alternate nodes in a doubly linked list. Write test cases.
- Given "ABC/EF" where do you place values G, H, and I. (pattern matching puzzle).
-How will you write a function to merge two sorted arrays assuming one of them have enough space to hold all the members.
After this they called me up to MS’s EU headquarters in Ireland, pretty basic interview, back to back 5 interviews, all pretty easy, asking questions about C++ internals, pointers and few simple algorithms, search a list, sort an array, overloading etc.
After this (i.e. after about 10 interviews in total and 1 coding test) they precede with an offer the next day, which was sadly only €30K amazingly a very low offer from such a big company. I discussed with the Microsoft’s HR abut the growth prospects what will be my pay after 1 year and then 2 year, turned out its pretty basic, 36-37K after first year and 40-42K after 2nd. I also applied at Accenture; they offered 42K + benefits straight away. So I can’t believe it, but I had to ditch Microsoft and join Accenture. In the end I felt that Microsoft wasted so much of my time, not worth apply a job here. My advice is if you are smart and can make it, join Google. Otherwise go for the money, there is no prestige in working for MS anymore.
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After this (i.e. after about 10 interviews in total and 1 coding test) they precede with an offer the next day, which was sadly only €30K amazingly a very low offer from such a big company. I discussed with the Microsoft’s HR abut the growth prospects what will be my pay after 1 year and then 2 year, turned out its pretty basic, 36-37K after first year and 40-42K after 2nd. I also had an offer from Accenture; 42K + benefits straight away. So I had to ditch Microsoft and join Accenture.
In the end I felt that Microsoft wasted so much of my time, not worth apply a job here. My advice is if you are smart and can make it, join Google they offer around €50-60K to new engineers. Otherwise go for where ever you can find good money, there is no prestige in working for MS anymore.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Mar 24, 2010
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took 2 months)
After A sent the resume someone from HR department contacted me by email. They send you a link to 2 problems, whenever you click on the link a timer is being launched on their side and they expect you to send the solutions in 2 hours.
After this step there was a technical phone interview which lasted about 1 hour, very technical. c++, algorithms and design.
Then they've scheduled a series of phone/skype/webcam interviews. I had 3 such interviews during one day, all were very technical, they ask you to write code and send it by skype or email. Again c++, algorithms and designing distributed fault tolerant systems.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Development Engineer II at Microsoft
Posted Mar 24, 2009
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2008 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took a day)
Got impression that people check your answers based on some templates. Many of them generally good educated, by you will definitely will fill like of experience. That not surprising, for many of them MS was the first and only employer. There are many question which will from you university course of Informatics, so worth to renew that knowledge. Many puzzles, and mostly of them you can find in internet. Nothing difficult, just good exam on things which you will never use in real life.
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Atmosphere is very good.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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