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Software Development Engineer Interview Experience - Redmond, Washington

March 22, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The first interview in the series was a Skype interview focused on non-technical problem-solving questions.

Onsite technical interview day involved visiting a series of employees in their offices for interviews. The candidate was shown around various office buildings and interviewed in local meeting rooms.

The overall experience was mostly all-expenses-paid and quite a pleasurable experience.

Questions

Find the first entry in an array of binary numbers.

Design a function to merge a list of contacts between various clients, updating a web service.

Create an algorithm to place a series of randomized ships onto a Battleship-esque grid system.

Create an algorithm to determine whether pixels surrounding a grid spot in a Game of Life environment are turned on.

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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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