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Software Development Engineer Interview Experience - Redmond, Washington

November 1, 2012
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Submitted CV at university career fair, then got an on-campus interview. This was followed by notification of an on-site interview at Redmond, WA. During the on-site, each candidate faced 4 rounds of 1-on-1 interviews, all in the morning. A decision was given quite fast: at midnight after the interview.

Questions

  1. A quite simple, calendar-related calculation question.

  2. Something close to binary search, finding a missing number from consecutive integers. For example, given 0, 1, 2, 4, 5, it should return 3. A little tricky for boundary conditions. Another simple question, but I cannot recall it.

  3. Double linked list insert and delete, with some special conditions. Simple. Another OOD question.

  4. Something like LeetCode's Jump Game. However, the jump length depends on the last jump made. For example, if in step N the man jumped M, then for the next step he can jump M-1, M, or M+1.

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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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