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Microsoft Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) IV Interview

Posted Nov 5, 2009

4.0
Difficult Interview
Overall Neutral Experience Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Jul 2007 (took 3 weeks)

The initial communication started with a phone screen and a couple of technical questions. That was followed up by a second phone interview and then there was a day long interview with the hiring group in Redmond. The interview consisted of 7 in-person interviews.
Most of the questions were about algorithms and design.
Examples:
Design a system that syncs data between 2 servers.
Compare 2 lists to determine if they are identical

Interview Questions

Return the sum of the 2 largest integers in an array. Make this more efficient.
Write a code snippet to general the first 10 Fibonnaci numbers.

Reason for Declining

The compensation did not justify the move.

Other Details

I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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