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Updated Feb 9, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Marketing Manager at Microsoft
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
Quick interview with recruiter from outsourced company. She had little understanding of the position she was interviewing me for and just ran down a checklist of requirements. I never heard back, the only requirement I did not meet was years experience.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Program Manager at Microsoft
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
I got my first interview through my career services. Its a very generic process with one interview in the campus and once you clear that, they would invite you to Seattle.
I guess my on campus interview was very good, she asked some design questions.
This interview went pretty well and I was called for the next round to Seattle.
Here my interview was with the MS Ad Center group. I had 5 interviews, i had to solve plethora of design questions, some were based on online advertising technology as well. Since I had ample exposure to Online Ad targeting technology through my internship, I explained my internship project and talked about Ad Networks, Ad Serving technology and how the Ad targeting works by collecting data from cookies and other data partners.
I thought it went pretty well, but after a week i got a reject email from the recruiter. Not really sure what they were looking for.
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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 Developer at Microsoft
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
four guy interviewed me in the interview and basically they asked not very hard questions. if you read book like programming interview exposed, you should be able to handle it.
I think I failed at the last round, in which it was the manager. the manager ask me to get a design problem, but obviously, i am not prepared. I have heard before that the manager will not ask programming questions, thus I was not prepared for that.
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The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Feb 6, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took a day)
Interview was fairly usual. They first ask you about basic personal background and experiences. Then they moved on to coding question, which was not very difficult. They asked you for different sorting algorithms and then about linked list. The final coding question was reversing words within the sentence.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Developer at Microsoft
Posted Feb 6, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took 5 days)
Attended a networking event, and was inviited for an onsite 4 hour interview.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Product Manager at Microsoft
Posted Feb 5, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2010 in Redmond, WA (took 2 months)
Applied online, said I knew someone who worked there (true.) Lots of questions about why I had returned to Seattle after being gone many years. Was not asked the typical 'trick' Microsoft questions you find online. It seemed they really wanted experienced people who knew content (writing, grammar, etc) and throwing developer-type trick questions at interviewees was not the way to get a good hire. I showed several writing samples, etc. It was a positive experience, but I found another job before they offered me anything.
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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 In Test (SDET) at Microsoft
Posted Feb 4, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 (took a day)
I got a call from their HR and he arranged the interview .
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Program Manager at Microsoft
Posted Feb 4, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took 2 days)
4 rounds of interviews.
round 1 -
basic coding skills - C questions on strings, arrays
design question - redesign your favorite email client. I chose gmail. The interviewer opened up his gmail account on his laptop and asked me to redesign it.
round 2 -
once again basic coding questions - lowest common ancestor, couple of string related questions
design question - design an airport. He just gave me this statement and then kept mum. I realized he was testing my requirement gathering ability - I started asking him questions like where do you want to build the airport, is the location near to the place, is the place a busy place, is it a major finance hub, etc etc
round 3 -
one design question only - how would you re-design MS paint software?
round 4 - [final AA round]
This was a grilling but fun round.
The interviewer asked me a wide range of questions - from design to coding to business strategies to testing based questions.
#1 design a fridge for blind
#2 couple of coding question based on strings, linked lists - but he did not want me to write code, instead explain the algorithm verbally with diagrams
#3 design a new kind of file system. Follow up question was - jot down the test cases for this feature.
#4 suppose a business comes to you with an idea of e-coupons and m-coupons, what sort of marketing and business strategies will you do for this? - here at times he kept asking me for some tech details as well.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Developer at Microsoft
Posted Feb 3, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 (took a day)
Was asked two behavoir questions (tell me about a time you worked on a team, tell me about an engineering/cs project you've done). Then, two technical questions (how do you reverse the letters in a sentence, how do you find the missing number in an array of consecutive numbers) Usually, interviewers let you choose your language, but I was told I could only code in C, which I found strange.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Feb 9, 2012 — 0 of 1 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 Jan 2012 in Seattle, WA (took 3 days)
I have been notified that the interview will be on December, however, they change the date to January. So I have too much more time to prepare. The interview involves much more design questions and only a little code question. It is quite tired to be interviewed from 9:00 am to nearly 6:00 pm with 5 persons. They all are very nice and smart. My feeling for the interview is very positive. Because one of my interviewer said I want you to do....blabla after interview. And one of them also give me his thumb. However, I still don't get the offer. I guess it is because my fault for analyze the complexity of a code. I was too tired and said n square, however, I mean 2 to the order of n....
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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