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Software Development Engineer New Grad Interview Experience - Estonia

April 1, 2020

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The process went very well.

Recruiters were nice and responsive throughout the whole process.

Interviewers were nice and interesting people.

In the beginning, I did an online test that had 3 problems for 65 minutes. The phone screen was 30 minutes, out of which 20 were to solve an algorithmic problem. During the virtual onsite, there were 4 interviews, 45 minutes each, which focused more on different technical questions (database, DevOps, etc.) and behavioral questions. I had to code only 3 problems, where 2 were not really related to algorithms.

Questions

How to optimize the deployment process, when initially tests are performed manually and some manual scripts are run for deployment.

Code LRU cache.

How would you use software to solve a global problem?

How to scale an application.

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Microsoft's interview process for their Software Development Engineer New Grad roles in Estonia is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Microsoft Work Experiences

Good Culture, Projects Close

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Tallinn, Estonia

Pros: Great work-life balance and culture.

Cons: Projects are often closed.

Good Culture, Projects Close

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Tallinn, Estonia

Pros: Great work-life balance and culture.

Cons: Projects are often closed.

Working in Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Tallinn, Estonia

Pros: Free food, porridge for breakfast, full lunch with various options. Hybrid working environment, with the possibility to work fully remotely. Swag, like t-shirts and more.

Cons: Lot of bureaucracy. Salary. Culture and values are only on paper; some managers are very tactless.

Working in Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Tallinn, Estonia

Pros: Free food, porridge for breakfast, full lunch with various options. Hybrid working environment, with the possibility to work fully remotely. Swag, like t-shirts and more.

Cons: Lot of bureaucracy. Salary. Culture and values are only on paper; some managers are very tactless.

Matter of taste

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Tallinn, Estonia

Pros: Collaborate internationally between teams. Although it has become less cool to work for MS, it still has a vast talent pool. Closest you'll probably ever get with respect to everything related to MS tech stack (which is also all up-to-date and easy to acquire). Encouraged use of processes that ensure high-quality products. Annual minor stock bonuses and performance-based but limited raises.

Cons: No product designers; the whole product development is based on hunches and their design on 'good enough'. Strict salary ranges for a particular position. To get a raise, you need to level up, which is based on your popularity. Strict enforcing of internal tools and processes that slow developers down and make them miserable for questionable benefit. Many interactions with people outside your own office seem to be Kafkaesque, and they do not seem to want you bothering them, so they try to do the absolute minimal effort to get you off their back.

Matter of taste

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Tallinn, Estonia

Pros: Collaborate internationally between teams. Although it has become less cool to work for MS, it still has a vast talent pool. Closest you'll probably ever get with respect to everything related to MS tech stack (which is also all up-to-date and easy to acquire). Encouraged use of processes that ensure high-quality products. Annual minor stock bonuses and performance-based but limited raises.

Cons: No product designers; the whole product development is based on hunches and their design on 'good enough'. Strict salary ranges for a particular position. To get a raise, you need to level up, which is based on your popularity. Strict enforcing of internal tools and processes that slow developers down and make them miserable for questionable benefit. Many interactions with people outside your own office seem to be Kafkaesque, and they do not seem to want you bothering them, so they try to do the absolute minimal effort to get you off their back.

Good Culture, Projects Close

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Tallinn, Estonia

Pros: Great work-life balance and culture.

Cons: Projects are often closed.

4.0
Good Culture, Projects Close
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Tallinn, Estonia
March 7, 2024
Pros: Great work-life balance and culture.
Cons: Projects are often closed.

Working in Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Tallinn, Estonia

Pros: Free food, porridge for breakfast, full lunch with various options. Hybrid working environment, with the possibility to work fully remotely. Swag, like t-shirts and more.

Cons: Lot of bureaucracy. Salary. Culture and values are only on paper; some managers are very tactless.

3.0
Working in Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Tallinn, Estonia
July 7, 2022
Pros: Free food, porridge for breakfast, full lunch with various options. Hybrid working environment, with the possibility to work fully remotely. Swag, like t-shirts and more.
Cons: Lot of bureaucracy. Salary. Culture and values are only on paper; some managers are very tactless.

Matter of taste

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Tallinn, Estonia

Pros: Collaborate internationally between teams. Although it has become less cool to work for MS, it still has a vast talent pool. Closest you'll probably ever get with respect to everything related to MS tech stack (which is also all up-to-date and easy to acquire). Encouraged use of processes that ensure high-quality products. Annual minor stock bonuses and performance-based but limited raises.

Cons: No product designers; the whole product development is based on hunches and their design on 'good enough'. Strict salary ranges for a particular position. To get a raise, you need to level up, which is based on your popularity. Strict enforcing of internal tools and processes that slow developers down and make them miserable for questionable benefit. Many interactions with people outside your own office seem to be Kafkaesque, and they do not seem to want you bothering them, so they try to do the absolute minimal effort to get you off their back.

4.0
Matter of taste
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Tallinn, Estonia
June 19, 2016
Pros: Collaborate internationally between teams. Although it has become less cool to work for MS, it still has a vast talent pool. Closest you'll probably ever get with respect to everything related to MS tech stack (which is also all up-to-date and easy to acquire). Encouraged use of processes that ensure high-quality products. Annual minor stock bonuses and performance-based but limited raises.
Cons: No product designers; the whole product development is based on hunches and their design on 'good enough'. Strict salary ranges for a particular position. To get a raise, you need to level up, which is based on your popularity. Strict enforcing of internal tools and processes that slow developers down and make them miserable for questionable benefit. Many interactions with people outside your own office seem to be Kafkaesque, and they do not seem to want you bothering them, so they try to do the absolute minimal effort to get you off their back.

Microsoft Interview Questions

Minimum Edge Reversals So Every Node Is Reachable

You're given a directed graph. Determine the minimum number of edges you need to reverse so that every node becomes reachable from node 0.

GraphsDynamic Programming

Two Sum

Find two numbers in a given array that add up to a specific target value, and return their indices. Essentially, you need to efficiently locate the pair that satisfies the sum requirement.

Valid Word

Determine if a given word is considered valid based on a specific set of rules or constraints. The goal is to check if the input string adheres to the specified validation criteria.

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