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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

March 1, 2023
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The coding interview was easy, but the system design interview was difficult and requires detailed knowledge of cloud and distributed systems.

For the coding interview, they asked about cherry pickup in both directions and how to find the optimal number of cherries, rather than a greedy approach that picks the maximum separately.

Questions

Design a social media network that provides ads partners to target users based on age, location, etc.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 19 interview experiences for the Microsoft Senior Software Engineer role in Seattle, Washington.

Success Rate

32%
Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in Seattle, Washington is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive53%
Neutral11%
Negative37%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Microsoft's Senior Software Engineer interview process in Seattle, Washington.

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