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Software Development Engineer Interview Experience - Redmond, Washington

March 1, 2012
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

First contact was at a university campus recruiting event.

I was called for a short 1:1 interview (30 minutes), followed by another short screening interview (phone).

Then, I was called for an on-site interview in Redmond. I had four interviews, each lasting one hour. Each interviewer was very nice, and the whole interviewing process was smooth and respectful.

Questions

Given a string "aaabbc", convert it to "3a2b1c". Output the result only if its length is smaller than the input length.

Given two binary trees T1 and T2. Find if T2 is a sub-tree of T1.

Given a building with 100 floors and windowpanes which can break if launched from the nth floor. Find out on which floor the windowpanes will break using only two of them.

Find if a linked-list contains a cycle in constant space.

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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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