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Updated Feb 10, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Senior Consultant at Microsoft
Posted Jan 23, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Jan 2012 (took 2+ weeks)
Was initially contacted by a recruiter from my LinkedIn profile. Consistently well-organized and professional process. Three phone interviews - the first describing how they felt my experience fit the position and the last two were more technical ensuring that I knew the product architecture using specific customer scenarios. I was then flown out to an office and had three seperate on-site interviews that focused mostly on consulting skill set. It was a well performed conversational interview process and a low-stress experience.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Financial Analyst at Microsoft
Posted Jan 27, 2012
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 (took 2 weeks)
Simple phone interview consisting of basic questions as well as behavioral questions to test basic skills and interpersonal comfort levels. Questions determined work ethic as well as how you would typically fit in with the rest of the account team. Second interview was with Account Managers with whom I would be working with.
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Negotiation Details
No negotiation
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Engineering at Microsoft
Posted Jan 27, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took a day)
i applied the intern through their website. After 3 days, I was notified that I will get a phone interview. The phone interview is carried out by a HR, who did not ask any kind of technical question. All the questions she asked are background - related.
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Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Service Delivery Manager at Microsoft
Posted Jan 27, 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 Dec 2011 (took 3 weeks)
General background and assessment over the telephone interview. 2nd interview was with a 1:1 with the hiring manager. I didn't get a feedback from after that and didn't follow-up! I have a friend who provided me with the feedback which was (Over Self-Confidence), not sure if this would be a justified reason!
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I Applied Online 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 Jan 26, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Redmond, WA (took 3 weeks)
5 interviews including a first HR interview. Last hiring manager
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Reason for Declining
Location reasons
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Program Manager at Microsoft
Posted Jan 26, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Redmond, WA (took 2+ weeks)
The interviews went well and I was told that I got a hire. I had three peer interview, a manager and a Group Manager (as appropriate). Unfortunately the job itself was pulled and no one got hired.
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Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Marketing Intern at Microsoft
Posted Jan 26, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Seattle, WA (took 3 weeks)
Very nice people. Mostly fit questions. A couple of marketing technical questions (something that was marketed well, not well, etc)
Interview Questions
Reason for Declining
Got offers elsewhere
Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Program Manager at Microsoft
Posted Jan 26, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Redmond, WA (took 6 weeks)
The phone interviewer was with an HR person who asked a few questions about my interests, my experience, and my career plans. Then she asked me to ask her questions I would need to design a shoe.
Microsoft pays all expenses for three days and two nights of travel for the interview in Redmond. You meet with the recruiter and 3-5 senior program managers. I interviewed for SharePoint. A lot of the questions were about designing a product and defending my design choice. This may seem obvious, but I was told that you should always ask "Who is it for?" when they tell you to design something so you know your target audience.
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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 Design Engineer In Test (Contract) at Microsoft
Posted Jan 26, 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 Sep 2011 in Redmond, WA (took a day)
1/2 hour with one interviewer and 1/2 hour with the other which turned into 1 hour. Hiring manager was out of town so didn't get to interview with her.
Interview Questions
2) How do you test a parking meter? Then I was asked a coding question on how to write a nested loop function to manipulate two arrays set of numbers
Negotiation Details
Very little or no negotiation with Vendor Agency since this was a contract position. I was offerred W2 hourly rate with $1 difference with holiday pay only and no other benefits; and another $1 difference with vacation+medical+401K, or 1099 which is almost 20% higher than W2 rate.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took 5 days)
The interviewer has very severe accent and for an international student, it was hard to understand him. We didn't talk much about my resume, but at first he gave me a hard problem - how many 0s are there in 100 ! - (he himself said it was quite difficult) and his reason was that I said in my resume that I had won an award in math in my high school. And i failed to solve it. He gave me another one - write a function to provide all the permutations of an array - which should be easy to solve, but I failed, maybe because I wasn't recovered from the first failure. Anyway, I screwed up.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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