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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 Jan 26, 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 2011 in Redmond, WA (took 2+ weeks)
The interviews went well and I was told that I got a hire. I had three peer interview, a manager and a Group Manager (as appropriate). Unfortunately the job itself was pulled and no one got hired.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Marketing Intern 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 Jan 2012 in Seattle, WA (took 3 weeks)
Very nice people. Mostly fit questions. A couple of marketing technical questions (something that was marketed well, not well, etc)
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Reason for Declining
Got offers elsewhere
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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 Jan 26, 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 Jan 2012 in Redmond, WA (took 6 weeks)
The phone interviewer was with an HR person who asked a few questions about my interests, my experience, and my career plans. Then she asked me to ask her questions I would need to design a shoe.
Microsoft pays all expenses for three days and two nights of travel for the interview in Redmond. You meet with the recruiter and 3-5 senior program managers. I interviewed for SharePoint. A lot of the questions were about designing a product and defending my design choice. This may seem obvious, but I was told that you should always ask "Who is it for?" when they tell you to design something so you know your target audience.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Design Engineer In Test (Contract) 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 Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Redmond, WA (took a day)
1/2 hour with one interviewer and 1/2 hour with the other which turned into 1 hour. Hiring manager was out of town so didn't get to interview with her.
Interview Questions
2) How do you test a parking meter? Then I was asked a coding question on how to write a nested loop function to manipulate two arrays set of numbers
Negotiation Details
Very little or no negotiation with Vendor Agency since this was a contract position. I was offerred W2 hourly rate with $1 difference with holiday pay only and no other benefits; and another $1 difference with vacation+medical+401K, or 1099 which is almost 20% higher than W2 rate.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Jan 24, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Redmond, WA (took a day)
I was contacted by a Recruiter. She lead me to believe that she worked at Microsoft. That was not true. I came to find out that a v- infront of the email address means VENDOR.
I was asked standard technical questions and some problem solving questions. I spoke about my experience and education. I did not answer the weird problem solving questions. I WOULD ENCOURAGE others to do the same.
I spoke with many non native English speakers. The inperson interviews were fine. Once again, I did not do the mind game questions. As potential employees, you can set the stage, you have power. I told one person that I was not going down that road, he did not understand. Microsoft complains that it can't find people but treats people poorly.
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Reason for Declining
I declined to continue because I was treated poorly. Companies need to learn to value potential employees and not have them jump through hoops. I was told during the interview process by one interviewer that he PREFERS H1-B visa applicants.
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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 Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Jan 22, 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 Nov 2011 in Redmond, WA (took a day)
The interview was 30 mins at the career center of our University. I was first to asked to describe things that appear on my resume and was given a basic data structure question afterwards.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Jan 21, 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 Redmond, WA (took a day)
I dropped my resume at the Microsoft booth at a career fair. I got an email that had me indicate what timeslots they listed were possible for me, for a phone interview. I also filled out a form to show what position, what development layer, etc I was interested in working in most. I provided my number and my skype name, and said that skype was the most convenient for me. On time, a woman called me on skype (no video) and the interview went right along. She seemed very good at interviewing. It felt very comfortable talking to her, and she made you feel justified in your thinking, and prompted you if you ran out of ideas. The "fun questions" as she called it seemed like brainstorming ideas, anything and everything you think of, you should mention. Get the corner cases, remember safety checks. I got an email 30 minutes after the phone interview ended saying I didn't make the cut. It said I was close, and offered to consider me for a support position, or interview for the developer position again in 2 months. In total, I communicated with 3 different women--the one that scheduled the interview, the interviewer, and the one that followed up on the interview. I asked for feedback/advice from the last woman in my thank-you reply, but she was somewhat dismissive. Otherwise, the vibe I got was okay. Everyone was courteous.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) at Microsoft
Posted Jan 18, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Redmond, WA (took 2 months)
I had an on-campus interview at my University, where the interviewer focused on design issues and basic algorithmic questions. I can remember couple of questions - how to determine if two circles intersect and how should a server behave if it has to crash (maybe gracefully) and come back up.
On-site interview was scheduled after a month's wait, and I had to schedule it for the next month since they had no slots. December-Jan is the holiday season, I guess! On-site interview was 5 rounds. First two involved coding and then coming up with as many test cases as I could for that code, to achieve maximum coverage. 3rd was the lunch interview with test lead and very casual - mostly just chatting about the interviewer's experience with Microsoft so far, and many questions on my projects and internship.
Fourth one with a test lead was tougher - totally testing oriented where I had to fix a piece of code he wrote on the board, and then many test cases for that piece of code. Also a very interesting question on how to test a map where he gave me an upside down map and we had a discussion on whether it was valid (it was an Australian classroom map, and valid.)
Fifth interviewer was the test manager, and we had a great time classifying test cases for testing the find function on notepad. At the end he told me I had the job - I had requested an expedited answer since I had another offer pending.
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Negotiation Details
I did not negotiate. This was my dream job and the offer is extremely competitive for a new grad.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Program Manager Intern at Microsoft
Posted Jan 18, 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 Nov 2011 in Bellevue, WA (took a day)
Had an on-campus interview that was essentially all fit, got an on-site through that. On-site interview was with Windows group, 4 back to back. Was asked coding questions in 2 of them, including one about writing a program in C++ to do matrix multiplication.
One interviewer was extremely rude, ridiculing my answers to all of his fit questions and giving me an extremely vague coding question about how to program an elevator control unit. Got upset when I asked him for details about the specs.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Paralegal at Microsoft
Posted Jan 17, 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 Redmond, WA (took 2 weeks)
I went through a couple of phone interviews with various people at Microsoft and then was asked to fly up to Seattle for an in person interview.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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