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Updated Feb 9, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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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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Software Development Engineer In Test at Microsoft
Posted Oct 21, 2011
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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 2011 (took 2 months)
Went to career fair and then later on got an interview on campus. The interviewer was nice and told me a lot about his experiences. Didn't hear back from they for a while -- until I got a call asking me to schedule my flight to Seattle. Weird, but as I later found out Gmail spammed the email that microsoft send about me getting another interview. Got to go to the Microsoft campus - 3 interviews there. Had a very nice requiter who met with me before my interview and outlined my day for me. During interviews mostly they wanted to see my testing skills, they would ask me to write code and then say "how would you test this?". Learned a lot -- didn't get an offer, but that kid of expected. This was the first interview I've ever had.
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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 In Test at Microsoft
Posted Jun 1, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 in Shanghai (China) (took 2 days)
Interviewed via liveMeeting
2 rounds of interviews
first round was technical, second was soft skills
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Development Engineer In Test at Microsoft
Posted Sep 9, 2010
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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 Jul 2010 (took 1 week)
I was a contractor at Microsoft before, and had many interviews there over the years.
After my previous QA manager at Microsoft passed my resume on to the hiring HR for a SDET position with a different team, I had an interview with the HR personnel. She then sent me a list of questions to answer for the hiring team to review. Most of these questions are about testing strategy and how one would approach testing...
After I submitted my answers, HR followed up with me a couple of days later to schedule for a technical phone interview with the hiring manager. The phone interview went about an hour, and the hiring manager asked me to do some coding and send it to him through email.
A few days later, HR let me know the team chose to move on with different candidates.
The whole process was professionally done. I believe whoever could show strong passion, good knowledge, and last but not least well fit in with the hiring team will get the job.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Development Engineer In Test at Microsoft
Posted Aug 3, 2010
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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 Jul 2010 in Seattle, WA (took 2 weeks)
2 phone interviews, then 3 Live Meeting Interviews within a day instead of the on site interview.
The phone interviews went well. But problems happened during the Live meeting interviews.
I never finished each question because each interviewer spent more than half an hour trying to share notepad through Live Meeting. So, there were no time to complete the coding questions.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Developer Engineer In Test at Microsoft
Posted Jul 28, 2010 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 May 2010 (took 2+ weeks)
Microsoft rep. came to campus. Was shortlisted for the interview and he asked about my projects. Got selected for on campus interview. Had 3 rounds there. Was not well prepared for the interview. Was first interview and did not have lot of time to prepare a lot.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Development Engineer In Test at Microsoft
Posted Feb 4, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 (took 2 weeks)
Be prepared for the questions about your past experience in details as much as possible.
If you mentioned any strong part in your remsume, i.e. SQL Server, you should spend at least 1 weeks full time study on that before interview and ready for hard questions on that.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Software Development Engineer in Test at Microsoft
Posted Sep 1, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2007 (took 2 months)
I was contacted by a staffing company about a temp to perm position at Microsoft for an SDET position. Since this was with a staffing company, and I did not live in the area, I did not have any face to face contact, rather, all contact was done over the phone.
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Reason for Declining
Pay was not competitive with other offers.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Development Engineer in Test at Microsoft
Posted May 3, 2009
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2008 in San Jose, CA (took 1 week)
Everyone who came for the 1:1 interview has to undergo interviews with 3 diff persons for an hr each. At end of 3rd interview, they take it forward depending on how you have given the interview.
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