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Microsoft Software Development Engineer Interview
Posted Oct 20, 2009 2009-10-20 13:58 PDT
3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2008 (took 4+ weeks)
The recruiter was aggressive, he painted pretty pictures of new features and cool new technologies I would be working on, but in reality, I did over a year of bugfixing on a mature technology nearing maintenance stage.
I was interviewed by 7 people overall, from 10am up to 6pm in the evening when I had the final conversation with the recruiter.
The interview questions were not too hard, I got some usual questions on linked lists and trees. Other questions were mostly about hardware and low-level drivers. I wasn't asked any puzzles that MS was once famous for, but I got several interesting questions about emulating an old console game on modern hardware and about avoiding issues with problematic hardware.
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Negotiation Details
The initial offer was lowballed, lower than the low bound of my expected salary range. The recruiter was telling me a lot of nonsense on how the hiring manager looks at all the other salaries in the team and determines the salary for the new hire and how it is better to come in with lower expectations and then get up to 20% cash bonus instead of negotiating a higher salary upfront. We went back and forth a few times, and I was able to negotiate a higher salary only after I got an offer from another company. The salary was still was at the low end of my expected salary range, but they rolled in some sign-on bonuses and stock grants to cover the difference for the first year of employment.
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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