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Updated Feb 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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4.0
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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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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 Jan 24, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Redmond, WA (took a day)
I was contacted by a Recruiter. She lead me to believe that she worked at Microsoft. That was not true. I came to find out that a v- infront of the email address means VENDOR.
I was asked standard technical questions and some problem solving questions. I spoke about my experience and education. I did not answer the weird problem solving questions. I WOULD ENCOURAGE others to do the same.
I spoke with many non native English speakers. The inperson interviews were fine. Once again, I did not do the mind game questions. As potential employees, you can set the stage, you have power. I told one person that I was not going down that road, he did not understand. Microsoft complains that it can't find people but treats people poorly.
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Reason for Declining
I declined to continue because I was treated poorly. Companies need to learn to value potential employees and not have them jump through hoops. I was told during the interview process by one interviewer that he PREFERS H1-B visa applicants.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Engagement Manager at Microsoft
Posted Jan 24, 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 Sep 2011 (took a day)
Made it to 'Finals' day, which included 5 different 1:1 interviews. Exhausting, but good. Overall a great great experience with the entire recruiting process.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Jan 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 Nov 2011 in Redmond, WA (took a day)
The interview was 30 mins at the career center of our University. I was first to asked to describe things that appear on my resume and was given a basic data structure question afterwards.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Technical Account Manager at Microsoft
Posted Jan 21, 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 Dec 2011 (took 2 weeks)
I had a phone interview with a recruiter that lasted 45 minutes. it consisted of some questions about my personality and experience along with a question about designing a calculator for a blind student. I got a 2nd interview and was flown to Texas for 4 1:1 interviews. I was not offered a job.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Jan 21, 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 Dec 2011 in Redmond, WA (took a day)
I dropped my resume at the Microsoft booth at a career fair. I got an email that had me indicate what timeslots they listed were possible for me, for a phone interview. I also filled out a form to show what position, what development layer, etc I was interested in working in most. I provided my number and my skype name, and said that skype was the most convenient for me. On time, a woman called me on skype (no video) and the interview went right along. She seemed very good at interviewing. It felt very comfortable talking to her, and she made you feel justified in your thinking, and prompted you if you ran out of ideas. The "fun questions" as she called it seemed like brainstorming ideas, anything and everything you think of, you should mention. Get the corner cases, remember safety checks. I got an email 30 minutes after the phone interview ended saying I didn't make the cut. It said I was close, and offered to consider me for a support position, or interview for the developer position again in 2 months. In total, I communicated with 3 different women--the one that scheduled the interview, the interviewer, and the one that followed up on the interview. I asked for feedback/advice from the last woman in my thank-you reply, but she was somewhat dismissive. Otherwise, the vibe I got was okay. Everyone was courteous.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II at Microsoft
Posted Jan 19, 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 Jun 2010 (took a day)
The question was given the definition of a Fibonacci sequence, write a function to give the n-th term of the sequence. I recognized right off the bat that there was both a recursive and non recursive solution to the problem. I wanted to code the non recursive solution because it would be inherently better than the recursive solution. However, the interviewer asked me to do the recursive one instead. I stumbled a little bit with the special cases but quickly realized my error and came up with the correct solution. My concern was that I did not slam dunk this like most people do but I still managed to come up with the correct solution. Problem is I'm not quick enough.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) at Microsoft
Posted Jan 23, 2012 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Richmond, CA (took a day)
First round interview is not too bad. The interviewer is very very nice.
The question I was asked was about pointer manipulation and a testing question.
Was called for second round interview on-site which is two days from now
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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 In Test (SDET) at Microsoft
Posted Jan 18, 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 Jan 2012 in Redmond, WA (took 2 months)
I had an on-campus interview at my University, where the interviewer focused on design issues and basic algorithmic questions. I can remember couple of questions - how to determine if two circles intersect and how should a server behave if it has to crash (maybe gracefully) and come back up.
On-site interview was scheduled after a month's wait, and I had to schedule it for the next month since they had no slots. December-Jan is the holiday season, I guess! On-site interview was 5 rounds. First two involved coding and then coming up with as many test cases as I could for that code, to achieve maximum coverage. 3rd was the lunch interview with test lead and very casual - mostly just chatting about the interviewer's experience with Microsoft so far, and many questions on my projects and internship.
Fourth one with a test lead was tougher - totally testing oriented where I had to fix a piece of code he wrote on the board, and then many test cases for that piece of code. Also a very interesting question on how to test a map where he gave me an upside down map and we had a discussion on whether it was valid (it was an Australian classroom map, and valid.)
Fifth interviewer was the test manager, and we had a great time classifying test cases for testing the find function on notepad. At the end he told me I had the job - I had requested an expedited answer since I had another offer pending.
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Negotiation Details
I did not negotiate. This was my dream job and the offer is extremely competitive for a new grad.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) III - Contract at Microsoft
Posted Jan 18, 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 Jan 2010 (took 2 days)
This was for SDET III contracting position. So the contracting company was the one who set up the interviewing date, time, and with the interviewers. It was standard MS interviewing questions involve basic things in Computer Science such as linked list, array, and few others. It was a whiteboard format so you wrote your code on the whiteboard.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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