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Software Development Engineer Interview Experience - Redmond, Washington

December 1, 2009
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Round one was at the University, on campus. They asked you a small coding question.

After I passed round one, they flew me out to Bellevue, Washington. You stay at a hotel with other engineers who are going to be interviewed. A bus takes you to the Microsoft campus to be interviewed.

The interview at Microsoft consisted of five one-hour interviews. All of the interviews included coding questions.

I think the tricky part of the interview was the language barrier. English is my first language; it was not the first language of one of the interviewers. I think he was upset that I kept asking him to repeat himself.

Questions

Given the pre-order and post-order printouts of a binary tree, reconstruct it.

Implement the function strstr. Bing it for more information.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 214 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Development Engineer role in Redmond, Washington.

Success Rate

45%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive75%
Neutral17%
Negative8%

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

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