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Updated Feb 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Program Manager at Microsoft
Posted Feb 7, 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 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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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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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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3.0
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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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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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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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Program Manager at Microsoft
Posted Feb 1, 2012
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2.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 2+ weeks)
consisted of a one on one with recruiter then fly out to main camup for a superday consisted of five interviews made it to the last interview. thought i would get it but did not happen. was totally fine. interviews were very enjoyable. loved the questions as they were all relavent. spent the rest of time in seattle enjoying the city.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Public Relations at Microsoft
Posted Jan 31, 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 Dec 2011 in Redmond, WA (took 2 days)
Mine was an internal interview loop that lasted two days, two directors, two technical managers, hiring manager, peer, and GM. Microsoft tends to have what's called an AA (As Appropriate), which is when you know you're a serious contender. Many people never make it to the AA.
I had to send some emails to follow-up, but otherwise the process was thorough and professional. I must have been runner-up because they kept me on hold longer than they had initially noted.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Development Engineer Intern at Microsoft
Posted Jan 30, 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 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
The interview process took a full morning. There were 4 interviews, each of them focuses on one aspect. Examples include basic programming questions. Things on the resume.
One question is that how to determine if two rectangles overlap or not on a plane.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II at Microsoft
Posted Jan 30, 2012
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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 Jan 2011 in Redmond, WA (took 2 weeks)
Went on site interview. Interviewers was nice and recruiter prepared and calmed me for the upcoming interviews. Went through 5 interviews but did not get an offer. Interview questions ranged from algo questions to design questions.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) at Microsoft
Posted Jan 29, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Redmond, WA (took 2 months)
At first, had a technical interview with a senior SDE and one with recruiter. Then got an interview day in Moscow. There were 4 interviews with 4 different people from separate teams. Each of them asked to solve couple of problems and used to ask how would you test your own solution
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Negotiation Details
The just gave me an offer without any negotiations.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) at Microsoft
Posted Jan 26, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Redmond, WA (took 3 weeks)
5 interviews including a first HR interview. Last hiring manager
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Location reasons
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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