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

April 1, 2009
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

They started with a telephonic screening. The screening was just to make sure that you were the candidate described in the resume. They asked about recent projects and basic Computer Science fundamentals.

Next was a telephonic interview conducted by a recruiter. She asked for details about my projects, some Computer Science questions, and a coding problem. I was asked to reverse a linked list.

Then, I was invited to on-site interviews at Microsoft Redmond, WA. I had three interviews, and each consisted of a series of questions regarding my projects, some behavioral questions, some testing questions, and one coding question.

Questions

Find a recurring element in a linked list of Unicode characters. If a Unicode character(s) is found to have a duplicate, delete that repeating node and adjust the list. The constraint was to not use any extra memory.

Using recursion to traverse a binary tree.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 128 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) role in Redmond, Washington.

Success Rate

49%
Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) roles in Redmond, Washington is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive66%
Neutral23%
Negative12%

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

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