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Software Development Engineer Interview Experience - Redmond, Washington

January 1, 2014
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Process

Phone interview, followed by an on-campus interview. The real meat, however, was in the on-location interview.

Essentially, from 8 AM to 5 PM, I met with various current employees of different ranks on the team I was going to join. The questions covered standard conversation topics, probed the depths of my understanding of certain problems, included standard algorithm-focused coding interviews, and even presented some pure brainteaser questions.

Questions

I mentioned I had done AI for a video game. I told them I used A* for pathfinding, but when they probed me on it, I admitted I had used a library implementation and didn't understand the algorithm in detail. I was then tasked with trying to derive it, knowing that it essentially boils down to Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm plus a bias.

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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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