Microsoft Interview Questions & Reviews in Mountain View, CA
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Updated Mar 19, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Senior Architect at Microsoft
Posted Sep 1, 2010 — 0 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 Declined Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in Mountain View, CA (took 1 week)
Phone screen, 1 one 1, then panel
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Reason for Declining
Got a better offer
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Intern for Test at Microsoft
Posted Mar 30, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in Mountain View, CA (took 1+ week)
Microsoft has the best interviewing perks, for sure. I felt like I was being wined and dined the whole time. For onsite interviews, if you get there, they basically give you the financial resources to really explore the area, at no cost to you. That was really nice.
Unfortunately, once I got to the actual onsite interview, it didn't go as well. They were asking me questions that it was fairly obvious they didn't really know how to solve themselves. I was interviewing for a test position, so I can forgive some syntax errors, but two times during the day, I had to defend my code as correct, when they told me it wasn't. That could have just been an interview tactic to see how I dealt with a superior giving me incorrect feedback, but unfortunately, it just made them look uninformed.
I didn't get the job, mostly because I wasn't a personality match for the company. The people there were nice, but we just didn't click.
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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 Mar 30, 2010
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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 2008 in Mountain View, CA (took 2 weeks)
Phone interview by recruiter, followed by a technical interview where you have to solve problems via sharing the screen. Then a whole 1 day interview with 4-5 Engineers. If all looks good then the Manager will have the final talk. Interview is very technical, you have to solve data structure problems
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Negotiation Details
You should always negotiate the salary
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer Intern at Microsoft
Posted Jan 18, 2010
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in Mountain View, CA (took a day)
Submitted Resume to Career Fair, one on-Campus interview, one on-site interview. 5 1:1 interviews in a single day, very exhaustive. Have to write codes for every single one, answer general CS questions, design questions, and questions about past projects.
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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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Program Manager Intern at Microsoft
Posted Jan 8, 2010 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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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 Jun 2008 in Mountain View, CA (took 3 weeks)
I sent in my resume via my university's internship office. I waited 2 weeks before they first contacted me. First they did a phone interview consisting of one soft-question (about a past project) and a few technical questions. I was presented with data on a Live NetMeeting session and had to identify the relationship between data items, and later code a procedure that processes data according to the given relationship. After the phone interview I waited around 4 days before they contacted me again for an on-site interview. I already had another offer that I had to respond to, so they were kind enough and made special arrangements to speed-up the process on their end. I interviewed with 4 people from the team I would be working with from 1st level PMs & devs to the product unit manager. Only one person asked behavioral questions, while everybody else asked mostly background questions.
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Negotiation Details
Salary is non-negotiable for internships, but I had an offer for a similar position from a major telecom and that might have helped in making the decision to hire me.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Project Manager at Microsoft
Posted Oct 31, 2009
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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 Oct 2009 in Mountain View, CA (took 3 days)
Initial contact came from a recruiter at a body shop (this was for a 6 month contract). "We found you on the web". Recruiter conducted a more thorough than usual phone screen, seemed to know her subject matter, and referred me to the hiring manager at Microsoft. The hiring manager called me the next day, but she was really sick - the interview lasted about 20 minutes. She was very friendly, the interview was pleasant, the questions fairly lowball. It quickly became apparent that they wanted in-depth technical experience that I did not have (this wasn't clear from the job description). The next day the recruiter called me and confirmed this.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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