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Software Developer Interview Experience

March 3, 2013
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Onsite interview. Interviewed together with 15 other students. Four rounds of interview in total. Each round consisted of a few behavioral questions with one technical question. Questions were fair, covering bit manipulation, a concurrency problem on adding a node to a linked list, and finding the missing integer in an array for some range.

Questions

If you are adding one node to node A and deleting one node at node B at the same time, how far should node A and B be to avoid a concurrency error?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 138 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Developer role in United States.

Success Rate

14%
Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Software Developer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive49%
Neutral41%
Negative10%

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

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