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      Director Engineering Interview

      Oct 14, 2010
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Declined offer
      Positive experience

      Other Director Engineering Interview Reviews for Microsoft

      Director of Engineering Interview

      Jul 18, 2016
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft

      Interview

      The first step of the interview process was a phone interview. I was interviewed by a Senior Director regarding previous projects and experience. No technical questions other than describing my previous roles. I was asked about whether travel would be a problem if I took the job as it required quarterly international travel. The next day I was asked for a face to face interview. I talked to the HR recruiter multiple times prior to the interview. I was given a schedule with 4 people from the team listed as well as an intro with the recruiter. I ended up interviewing with 6 people total. Three of the interviews were very technical and included coding questions on low-level software in C and/or platform level debugging. One was focused on organizational awareness and interactions. While another dealt more with software and platform architecture. The final interview was with the position's manager's peer. It was more of a behavioral as well as a design/requirements focused interview. Each interview was about an hour long. I received an offer two days after the interview concluded.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Develop some code to create your own malloc function that allows a parameter to represent a size to align the memory block to. Then ensure that you are able to free the memory using the size aligned pointer and no additional parameters.
      Answer question
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      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2010

      Interview

      The interview had a very technical focus. The interview also had a strong management focus. Met with key people from Development, Product Management, and Test (QA). Mostly interactive behavioral questions. There was some up in front of the whiteboard technical discussions as well.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How would you handle this problem which we ran into today. There is a security issue with CSSI attacks that only occurs for customers in this region of the world.
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