Microsoft

Build Engineer Interview Experience - United States

August 1, 2013

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

The process took about two weeks.

I was brought to the site for a whiteboard interview.

I was interviewed by three different people, one after the other.

Each person interviewed me for about one hour, and I was asked to write some code.

Questions

I had to solve a problem that involved arrays.

The best implementation for the problem, in terms of O efficiency, was the use of hash tables.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Microsoft Build Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

100%

Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Build Engineer roles in the United States is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive100%

Neutral0%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Microsoft's Build Engineer interview process in United States.

Microsoft Work Experiences

Software Build Engineer

Build Engineer • Current Employee

Lynnwood, Washington, United States

Pros: A good place to work in.

Cons: A good place to work in, actually. No concerns.

Software Build Engineer

Build Engineer • Current Employee

Lynnwood, Washington, United States

Pros: A good place to work in.

Cons: A good place to work in, actually. No concerns.

Steady Job with Good Benefits but Hard to Move Career Forward

Build Engineer • Current Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

Pros: Typically able to have a great work-life balance. Work from home, benefits are still good. The Stay Fit program is awesome, and the new review system has definitely improved the overall culture and helped to minimize teammates throwing each other under the bus come July.

Cons: To move up or expand your career, you really have to either move around the company a lot or leave Microsoft for a few years and return. Rinse and repeat. There needs to be more of a push to continually educate employees on new technology and push employees for new ideas. Also, the reorg back at the end of 2013 seems to have made budgets vastly imbalanced across orgs, unfortunately.

Steady Job with Good Benefits but Hard to Move Career Forward

Build Engineer • Current Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

Pros: Typically able to have a great work-life balance. Work from home, benefits are still good. The Stay Fit program is awesome, and the new review system has definitely improved the overall culture and helped to minimize teammates throwing each other under the bus come July.

Cons: To move up or expand your career, you really have to either move around the company a lot or leave Microsoft for a few years and return. Rinse and repeat. There needs to be more of a push to continually educate employees on new technology and push employees for new ideas. Also, the reorg back at the end of 2013 seems to have made budgets vastly imbalanced across orgs, unfortunately.

Good Benefits, Murky Management

Build Engineer • Current Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

February 26, 2014

Pros: Flexible work schedule, good health/dental benefits. The Stay Fit program is awesome!

Cons: Management is very closed-door. Employees are often left in the dark about goals and project priorities until the last minute. Unless you're lucky to get on a high-visibility project, career growth is slow.

Good Benefits, Murky Management

Build Engineer • Current Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

February 26, 2014

Pros: Flexible work schedule, good health/dental benefits. The Stay Fit program is awesome!

Cons: Management is very closed-door. Employees are often left in the dark about goals and project priorities until the last minute. Unless you're lucky to get on a high-visibility project, career growth is slow.

Software Build Engineer

Build Engineer • Current Employee

Lynnwood, Washington, United States

Pros: A good place to work in.

Cons: A good place to work in, actually. No concerns.

5.0
Software Build Engineer
Build Engineer • Current Employee
Lynnwood, Washington, United States
April 19, 2016
Pros: A good place to work in.
Cons: A good place to work in, actually. No concerns.

Steady Job with Good Benefits but Hard to Move Career Forward

Build Engineer • Current Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

Pros: Typically able to have a great work-life balance. Work from home, benefits are still good. The Stay Fit program is awesome, and the new review system has definitely improved the overall culture and helped to minimize teammates throwing each other under the bus come July.

Cons: To move up or expand your career, you really have to either move around the company a lot or leave Microsoft for a few years and return. Rinse and repeat. There needs to be more of a push to continually educate employees on new technology and push employees for new ideas. Also, the reorg back at the end of 2013 seems to have made budgets vastly imbalanced across orgs, unfortunately.

4.0
Steady Job with Good Benefits but Hard to Move Career Forward
Build Engineer • Current Employee
Redmond, Washington, United States
July 8, 2014
Pros: Typically able to have a great work-life balance. Work from home, benefits are still good. The Stay Fit program is awesome, and the new review system has definitely improved the overall culture and helped to minimize teammates throwing each other under the bus come July.
Cons: To move up or expand your career, you really have to either move around the company a lot or leave Microsoft for a few years and return. Rinse and repeat. There needs to be more of a push to continually educate employees on new technology and push employees for new ideas. Also, the reorg back at the end of 2013 seems to have made budgets vastly imbalanced across orgs, unfortunately.

Good Benefits, Murky Management

Build Engineer • Current Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

February 26, 2014

Pros: Flexible work schedule, good health/dental benefits. The Stay Fit program is awesome!

Cons: Management is very closed-door. Employees are often left in the dark about goals and project priorities until the last minute. Unless you're lucky to get on a high-visibility project, career growth is slow.

4.0
Good Benefits, Murky Management
Build Engineer • Current Employee
Redmond, Washington, United States
February 26, 2014
Pros: Flexible work schedule, good health/dental benefits. The Stay Fit program is awesome!
Cons: Management is very closed-door. Employees are often left in the dark about goals and project priorities until the last minute. Unless you're lucky to get on a high-visibility project, career growth is slow.

Microsoft Interview Questions

Minimum Edge Reversals So Every Node Is Reachable

You're given a directed graph. Determine the minimum number of edges you need to reverse so that every node becomes reachable from node 0.

GraphsDynamic Programming

Two Sum

Find two numbers in a given array that add up to a specific target value, and return their indices. Essentially, you need to efficiently locate the pair that satisfies the sum requirement.

ArraysStringsTwo Pointers

Valid Word

Determine if a given word is considered valid based on a specific set of rules or constraints. The goal is to check if the input string adheres to the specified validation criteria.

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