Microsoft

Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

January 1, 2008

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

One phone interview (around 20 minutes about general CS concepts). After passing that, they scheduled another on-site interview with four different people. That one lasted around 4 hours.

Questions

Nothing really unexpected. I would say that reading the "Programming Interviews Exposed" book got me the job.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Microsoft Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) role in Seattle, Washington.

Success Rate

67%

Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) roles in Seattle, Washington is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive67%

Neutral33%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Microsoft's Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) interview process in Seattle, Washington.

Microsoft Work Experiences

Growth Despite Toxic Management

Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: Personal growth is good. Meeting with a lot of interesting people, most of them very sharp. Good feeling about the great impact of daily work.

Cons: Malicious competitions between managers. Poor performance review design. Secret annual "calibration" is the gas chamber for industry's best engineers.

Growth Despite Toxic Management

Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: Personal growth is good. Meeting with a lot of interesting people, most of them very sharp. Good feeling about the great impact of daily work.

Cons: Malicious competitions between managers. Poor performance review design. Secret annual "calibration" is the gas chamber for industry's best engineers.

Great Place, Bureaucratic Process

Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) • Former Employee

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Pros: Great place to work and grow.

Cons: Can be a bit bureaucratic.

Great Place, Bureaucratic Process

Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) • Former Employee

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Pros: Great place to work and grow.

Cons: Can be a bit bureaucratic.

Great place to work that deteriorated over the years

Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) • Former Employee

Reading, England, United Kingdom

October 13, 2016

Pros: Great place to work that deteriorated over the years.

Cons: All the tech jobs were moved out of the UK.

Great place to work that deteriorated over the years

Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) • Former Employee

Reading, England, United Kingdom

October 13, 2016

Pros: Great place to work that deteriorated over the years.

Cons: All the tech jobs were moved out of the UK.

Growth Despite Toxic Management

Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: Personal growth is good. Meeting with a lot of interesting people, most of them very sharp. Good feeling about the great impact of daily work.

Cons: Malicious competitions between managers. Poor performance review design. Secret annual "calibration" is the gas chamber for industry's best engineers.

3.0
Growth Despite Toxic Management
Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) • Former Employee
Seattle, Washington, United States
March 21, 2014
Pros: Personal growth is good. Meeting with a lot of interesting people, most of them very sharp. Good feeling about the great impact of daily work.
Cons: Malicious competitions between managers. Poor performance review design. Secret annual "calibration" is the gas chamber for industry's best engineers.

Great Place, Bureaucratic Process

Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) • Former Employee

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Pros: Great place to work and grow.

Cons: Can be a bit bureaucratic.

5.0
Great Place, Bureaucratic Process
Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) • Former Employee
Bellevue, Washington, United States
March 30, 2022
Pros: Great place to work and grow.
Cons: Can be a bit bureaucratic.

Great place to work that deteriorated over the years

Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) • Former Employee

Reading, England, United Kingdom

October 13, 2016

Pros: Great place to work that deteriorated over the years.

Cons: All the tech jobs were moved out of the UK.

4.0
Great place to work that deteriorated over the years
Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) • Former Employee
Reading, England, United Kingdom
October 13, 2016
Pros: Great place to work that deteriorated over the years.
Cons: All the tech jobs were moved out of the UK.

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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