Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) Interview Experience - Redmond, Washington
Process
A recruiter came to my college campus and conducted an on-campus interview. This interview was fairly simple; he asked me to talk about a project I had done and then asked me to write a method in Java that determines whether a given string is a palindrome.
A few weeks later, they flew me out to Redmond, where I ended up doing four interviews. Three of them were fairly simple, and one was pretty difficult because it involved writing a program on a whiteboard that involved multithreading.
Overall, if you are prepared and confident, you'll do fine.
Questions
Write a program in Java that determines whether a string is a palindrome.
Write a method (in a language that you are comfortable with) that determines whether one given string is a substring of another given string.
Given an array of integers in random order from 1 to 100, but one number was missing, name 3 ways you can find out which number was missing.
Write a program that acts as an application scheduler that runs executables at given times.
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Microsoft Work Experiences
- 3.0It slowly chips my passion away, day by daySoftware Development Engineer In Test (SDET) • Current EmployeeRedmond, Washington, United StatesJuly 20, 2014Pros: Good benefits, good work-life balance, which the company stresses.Cons: Unless your project is high priority, it's hard to make an impact. Most of the people that I worked with have families to take care of, so there is really no socializing with your coworkers in my case. When I first started, I thought I could make a difference, but looking back, I barely scratched the surface.
- 3.0What used to be a great company is no moreSoftware Development Engineer In Test (SDET) • Former EmployeeRedmond, Washington, United StatesSeptember 21, 2010Pros: Great benefits. Work hours flexibility.Cons: - unfair reviews - no matter what the company does, Wall Street doesn't like it. - incompetent leadership
- 3.0Excellent Benefit, Beware of Bad Managers & LobbyismSoftware Development Engineer In Test (SDET) • Current EmployeeRedmond, Washington, United StatesJuly 23, 2008Pros: Great benefit, huge career opportunities, variety of people & technologies. You may come across many smart individuals. It's amazing to see the depth & breadth of technologies & people they have. Each group/organization is like a company within a company. They have completely different working styles, technologies, people skills & possibly evaluation processes. Upper management & HR are really working hard to make it a better place to work, but I think they don't realize that the real bottleneck is their hierarchy & too many managers. Company with a great history & big name, so you can be proud of it when you go home.Cons: Having a bad manager, which often happens, can screw up your career and growth at Microsoft. There is a clear lobby in organizations like Office and Windows. I haven't seen such things in Live/MSN. I would love to work for this company if they got rid of leads and managers who are just playing games, checking emails, and giving big management lectures without having any technical insight. Too much hierarchy gets in the way of the company's progress and decision-making process. Also, leads and managers tend to have favorites of their own without any specific work-related reasons, so if you are not one of them, then good luck! Also, don't expect much once you have joined this company; bonus and stock awards are peanuts compared to what you can get outside. In short, a great place to work for, but filled with tons of bad managers.
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