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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience

December 1, 2018
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process was very smooth. I applied online and received a call from the recruiter in two days. The process included one phone screen, one Online Technical Screen (OTS) test, and then an onsite interview.

The OTS had three easy to medium-level LeetCode questions. During the test, we also had to comment and provide an analysis of the code. The questions were:

  1. Calculate the square root without using an inbuilt function.
  2. Merge two unsorted linked lists into a sorted array.
  3. Find the bug in a given code snippet.

Questions

Onsite:

  1. Replace blank spaces in a string with '%', with no extra space.
  2. Rotate a 2D array by the next two positions.
  3. Find if a graph is acyclic.
  4. Find the Kth position between two given nodes. For example: 1->2->3->4->5. If nodes 2 and 4 are the inputs, and K is 4, return -1 as only one element (node 3) lies between them.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 105 interview experiences for the Microsoft Senior Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

21%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive53%
Neutral13%
Negative33%

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

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