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* Posted anonymously by interview candidates (updated Nov 21, 2009)

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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft

Posted Nov 21, 2009

4.0
Difficult Interview
Overall Positive Experience Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Sep 2008 (took a day)

Some general and technical questions like:
 - describing topics of my resume
 - why should I be hired by MS
 - what's the difference between inner join and left outter join
 - implement a function that returns the N-iest Fibonacci number
 - implement a function that reverts a string
 - implement the previous function to make changes in local

Interview Questions

- what's the difference between inner join and left outter join
- implement a function that reverts a string in local

Other Details

I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft

Posted Nov 12, 20090 of 1 people found this helpful

Interviewed Nov 2009 (took a day)

University recruitment. Microsoft came and gave an information session and also came to our career fair at UCSB. They took resumes and then emailed invitations to be interviewed on campus… Post a review to see full interview

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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft

Posted Nov 3, 2009

Interviewed Oct 2009 in Redmond, WA (took a day)

I applied online through the Microsoft website and was contacted a few days later through email by a HR company. This email had arranged several campus interview dates and asked me to list… Post a review to see full interview

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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft

Posted Oct 20, 2009

Interviewed Feb 2008 (took 4+ weeks)

The recruiter was aggressive, he painted pretty pictures of new features and cool new technologies I would be working on, but in reality, I did over a year of bugfixing on a mature… Post a review to see full interview

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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft

Posted Oct 7, 2009

Interviewed Oct 2009 (took a day)

Application process consisted of applying online via the recent graduate page, and then receiving an email from the recruiter mentioning they were interested in doing a phone interview… Post a review to see full interview

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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft student candidate

Posted Sep 14, 2009

Interviewed Feb 2009 (took 2 weeks)

The interviewer asked about course work and previous projects. Asked simple programming question about linked list tree traversal. Also asked more qualitative programming questions about… Post a review to see full interview

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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft student candidate

Posted Jul 24, 2009

Interviewed Jan 2009 in Redmond, WA (took a day)

Well, first of all I attended a job fair at my college, Arizona State University, where I handed my resume to Microsoft. I was then called in to the school career center for my first… Post a review to see full interview

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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft

Posted Jul 17, 2009

Interviewed Mar 2009 in Seattle, WA (took 2 days)

Company came on campus for the hiring process, soon after which on campus interviews were performed. Feedback on the initial interview came after 3 weeks, which is a very long time. After… Post a review to see full interview

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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft

Posted Jul 16, 2009

Interviewed Apr 2009 (took 1+ week)

The interview process is pretty well structured and specific. They basically give 3 types of questions design,programming and Testing and if you do well in any one of those questions you… Post a review to see full interview

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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft

Posted Jul 10, 20091 of 1 people found this helpful

Interviewed Nov 2007 in Redmond, WA (took a day)

msft has two rounds. 1st round is usually on-campus. Recruiters usually come to campus multiple times throughout the year. It's always not a big deal if you miss once - because they'll… Post a review to see full interview

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