Microsoft Interview Questions & Reviews in Seattle, WA Area
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Updated Feb 12, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Feb 12, 2012
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 in Redmond, WA (took 3 weeks)
I had four 1:1 interview. Questions were general algorithm based on trees, arrays and strings. My last interview did not go too well so was rejected.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Licensing at Microsoft
Posted Feb 11, 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 Jun 2010 in Redmond, WA (took 4+ weeks)
Very scientific, probing process including problem solving. Dress casually. Be prepared to answer a series of questions related any number of problems.
Good people but bureaucratic process.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Software Developer at Microsoft
Posted Feb 10, 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 Seattle, WA (took 1 week)
Contacted by the campus recruit for a campus interview.
The interviewer is really nice and is very patient to lead you through
the technical questions.
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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 Intern at Microsoft
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
I had a 1:1 interview with microsoft on January 18, 2012. I applied online and they invited me for a 1:1 interview on campus. It lasted for about 30 minutes. They asked me some basic questions about Why Microsoft ?, What made you take up Computer Science as your major ? and stuff like that. Then they got into coding questions. They asked me two questions.
1) Reverse all the characters in a string before you encounter an 'x'. abcdxdd - > dcbaxdd
2) Reveres all the words in a string before you encounter a word which has 'x' in it.
Hi, I like Microsoft asdfxab Settle -> Microsoft like I Hi, asdfxab seattle.
They took 3 weeks to get back to me with results. They invited me for an Onsite interview at Seattle.
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Hi, I like Microsoft asdfxab Settle -> Microsoft like I Hi, asdfxab seattle.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Development Engineer In Test at Microsoft
Posted Feb 9, 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 Seattle, WA (took 3 months)
First round was an on campus interview which was fairly easy. Later was called to interview onsite in Seattle for an SDET position in the XBOX live team. Consisted of 4 technical interviews. All of them were fairly easy except one which i guess was the bar raiser and also the reason i didn't get selected.
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First iteration: AABBCCCCBBAA
Second iteration: AABBBBAA
Third iteration: AAAAA
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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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Marketing Manager at Microsoft
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
Quick interview with recruiter from outsourced company. She had little understanding of the position she was interviewing me for and just ran down a checklist of requirements. I never heard back, the only requirement I did not meet was years experience.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Program Manager at Microsoft
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
I got my first interview through my career services. Its a very generic process with one interview in the campus and once you clear that, they would invite you to Seattle.
I guess my on campus interview was very good, she asked some design questions.
This interview went pretty well and I was called for the next round to Seattle.
Here my interview was with the MS Ad Center group. I had 5 interviews, i had to solve plethora of design questions, some were based on online advertising technology as well. Since I had ample exposure to Online Ad targeting technology through my internship, I explained my internship project and talked about Ad Networks, Ad Serving technology and how the Ad targeting works by collecting data from cookies and other data partners.
I thought it went pretty well, but after a week i got a reject email from the recruiter. Not really sure what they were looking for.
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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 Developer at Microsoft
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
four guy interviewed me in the interview and basically they asked not very hard questions. if you read book like programming interview exposed, you should be able to handle it.
I think I failed at the last round, in which it was the manager. the manager ask me to get a design problem, but obviously, i am not prepared. I have heard before that the manager will not ask programming questions, thus I was not prepared for that.
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The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Product Manager at Microsoft
Posted Feb 5, 2012
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2010 in Redmond, WA (took 2 months)
Applied online, said I knew someone who worked there (true.) Lots of questions about why I had returned to Seattle after being gone many years. Was not asked the typical 'trick' Microsoft questions you find online. It seemed they really wanted experienced people who knew content (writing, grammar, etc) and throwing developer-type trick questions at interviewees was not the way to get a good hire. I showed several writing samples, etc. It was a positive experience, but I found another job before they offered me anything.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Feb 9, 2012 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Seattle, WA (took 3 days)
I have been notified that the interview will be on December, however, they change the date to January. So I have too much more time to prepare. The interview involves much more design questions and only a little code question. It is quite tired to be interviewed from 9:00 am to nearly 6:00 pm with 5 persons. They all are very nice and smart. My feeling for the interview is very positive. Because one of my interviewer said I want you to do....blabla after interview. And one of them also give me his thumb. However, I still don't get the offer. I guess it is because my fault for analyze the complexity of a code. I was too tired and said n square, however, I mean 2 to the order of n....
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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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