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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Redmond, Washington

May 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

This was for Clod and Applications, the Power BI gateway team.

It involved a phone screen and three technical rounds.

Topics were pure Computer Science and Data Structures, all done on whiteboards. No Azure, no databases, no REST, and no WCF were involved – just plain CS.

Questions

Phone interview:

  1. Design an elevator: How many elevators do you need for an n-storied building?

  2. Figure out whether a given tree is a Binary Search Tree (BST) or not.

First technical round:

  1. Write a function to get the Fibonacci number using both iteration and recursion.

  2. In a given 2D plane, how will you find if a given coordinate lies within a rectangle?

Second Round:

Design Elevator: The interviewer was the same as the phone interview person, so the questions were the same.

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The following metrics were computed from 24 interview experiences for the Microsoft Senior Software Engineer role in Redmond, Washington.

Success Rate

29%
Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in Redmond, Washington is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive63%
Neutral4%
Negative33%

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