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Updated Feb 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Program Manager Intern at Microsoft
Posted Jan 18, 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 2011 in Bellevue, WA (took a day)
Had an on-campus interview that was essentially all fit, got an on-site through that. On-site interview was with Windows group, 4 back to back. Was asked coding questions in 2 of them, including one about writing a program in C++ to do matrix multiplication.
One interviewer was extremely rude, ridiculing my answers to all of his fit questions and giving me an extremely vague coding question about how to program an elevator control unit. Got upset when I asked him for details about the specs.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Paralegal at Microsoft
Posted Jan 17, 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 Redmond, WA (took 2 weeks)
I went through a couple of phone interviews with various people at Microsoft and then was asked to fly up to Seattle for an in person interview.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Program Manager at Microsoft
Posted Jan 17, 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 Jan 2012 (took a day)
Applied online to Microsoft University for a summer internship. Got an email a couple weeks later from a recruiter saying that they will have a 30 minute phone interview considering me for SDE, SDET and PM, after which I may be called on-site to interview with a specific team and for a specific role. The recruiter called 8 minutes after the assigned time, and the interview lasted 33 minutes. He made me feel at ease by some general introductions, and then asked all the general questions.
Interview Questions
How many lines of code have you written? How many lines of code did you write for this hardest program?
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Intern at Microsoft
Posted Jan 17, 2012
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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 Oct 2011 (took a day)
On campus interview, Microsoft recruiting team visited my college and they encouraged me to apply through their online site. Then, I sent an interview invitation 2~3 days later.
Interview Questions
- Pick the one of the hardest of your project during your PhD, and tell me what you've learned.
- Point out the one of my industrial experience in my resume, and explain what technology you used in this project.
Coding question
- There are two sorted linked list. Merge two linked list. He gave me C++ prototype.
- Check intersection of two circles.
check (int x1, int y1, int r1, int x2, int y2, int r2)
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Jan 16, 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 Nov 2011 (took a day)
The interview was an on campus interview for undergraduates and recent graduates. The setup of the interview was well organized and communication was clear. This interview was an initial screening, which would have been followed by a full round of interviews in Washington if it went well.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Jan 15, 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 (took 2 weeks)
Resume sent through career fair in school. I was sent information to sign up for a phone interview slot. The phone interview lasted for about one hour asking me for some background information and my past coding experience (what is the longest program you've written). As I was also interviewing for the google APM position, they asked my organizational skills as well.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Intern at Microsoft
Posted Jan 19, 2012 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Oct 2011 (took a day)
It was more like casual chatting, and some normal behavior questions. They asked a lot of details and whys.
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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 14, 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 2 months)
Met with the collage recruiter in career fair. Then had a 1.1 interview on the campus. After a few weeks on-site is offered. Then it is rescheduled for the next month. On site consisted of 5 1.1 interviews. First you meet with your recruiter chat about your hobbies or your plans for your career. Then, she directs you to the first interviewer. Each interviewer escorts you to the next one. The third one is most of the time lunch interviewer. During the lunch he may ask about your projects or some technology related questions. Then, I had two more interviews. The forth one was with a lead dev and the last one was with a manager. Don't think that you will get the job if you made to the manager. At least that's not happened in my case. I got the nearly all the questions right during the day. Asked a lot of questions about company, technologies they are using or about the products. However, in the end since a lot of people are applying they have the chance to very picky. Overall, everything was really smooth and professional. Probably I'll apply again in the future. Good luck to all of you.
Interview Questions
Given HTML file <foo> encode it as <foo>. Improve complexity from O(n) to O(logn) to constant time (5th interview)
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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 Jan 13, 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 Dec 2011 in Bellevue, WA (took 3 weeks)
The interviews consisted for 2 phone screens and an onsite interview. First phone-screen was with the manager of the group and focused on my experiences and some technical questions, e.g. "How would you approach testing an elevator?", "Hint: first list types of testplans you will need to write, and only then specific tests". Second phone screen was with one of the senior team members, was similar with the first one but more relaxed. After completing the phone cycle I got an email from the recruiter with invitation to come in for an in-person interview.
My interview from what I head was not typical, since it started at 9AM and lasted up until 5. I met 6 interviewers. Several Senior Test leads, Development leads, developers and testers. Most interviews had "HR component" or general questions about testing and coding, with question such as:
if you have a conflict with your subordinate how would you resolve it?
if your product has 6 features, but your team has time to test only 5 - how would you chose which one to exclude?
Core coding questions were fairly expected, and easy. The language of choice did not matter, as long as you can write psuedocode.
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Negotiation Details
If the company really wants you they are prepared to offer more then initial offer.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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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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