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Software Development Engineer Interview Experience - Redmond, Washington

September 1, 2015

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had four interviews. Ms. [Company Name, assuming this is the name] is a really nice company, leaving a good impression. The interviewers were nice and really wanted to share their ideas and discuss problems with me. Just one of them played on his phone while I was explaining my code.

Questions

LeetCode's Spiral Matrix
Write a ReadWrite class and implement the readLock, readUnlock, writeLock, and writeUnlock functions using a mutex class, based on CREW-PRAM.
Some string operation algorithm questions.

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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.

Microsoft Work Experiences

Good Pay, Small Fish

Software Development Engineer • Current Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

January 27, 2015

Pros: Amazing benefits and pay. Can help create things billions of people use.

Cons: Big company, have to deal with a lot of politics. Really feel like a small fish in a big pond, not really getting a say in what happens with your feature.

Good Pay, Small Fish

Software Development Engineer • Current Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

January 27, 2015

Pros: Amazing benefits and pay. Can help create things billions of people use.

Cons: Big company, have to deal with a lot of politics. Really feel like a small fish in a big pond, not really getting a say in what happens with your feature.

Big corporate bureaucracy

Software Development Engineer • Current Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

Pros: Good health benefit, good, big campus. Easily get insulated, meet many people. Social opportunities, nice view in Seattle, good office.

Cons: Not fair. Manager fights for political reasons, not merit-based promotion. Top manager does not know or try to learn technology. It is becoming a local government agency.

Big corporate bureaucracy

Software Development Engineer • Current Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

Pros: Good health benefit, good, big campus. Easily get insulated, meet many people. Social opportunities, nice view in Seattle, good office.

Cons: Not fair. Manager fights for political reasons, not merit-based promotion. Top manager does not know or try to learn technology. It is becoming a local government agency.

Fun summer internship (SDE)

Software Development Engineer • Former Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

February 24, 2013

Pros: Great team to work with - working on products millions of people use. Good benefits, flexible work hours.

Cons: It's a little odd being part of such a huge corporation, where you can see your group's interests may conflict with other groups in the company. You can't help but root for your own group/section and be a little dismayed at the coordinated, across-the-board strategies. Depending on the group you join, you may find yourself stuck in a very C++-only world with lots and lots, and lots, of legacy code.

Fun summer internship (SDE)

Software Development Engineer • Former Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

February 24, 2013

Pros: Great team to work with - working on products millions of people use. Good benefits, flexible work hours.

Cons: It's a little odd being part of such a huge corporation, where you can see your group's interests may conflict with other groups in the company. You can't help but root for your own group/section and be a little dismayed at the coordinated, across-the-board strategies. Depending on the group you join, you may find yourself stuck in a very C++-only world with lots and lots, and lots, of legacy code.

Good Pay, Small Fish

Software Development Engineer • Current Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

January 27, 2015

Pros: Amazing benefits and pay. Can help create things billions of people use.

Cons: Big company, have to deal with a lot of politics. Really feel like a small fish in a big pond, not really getting a say in what happens with your feature.

3.0
Good Pay, Small Fish
Software Development Engineer • Current Employee
Redmond, Washington, United States
January 27, 2015
Pros: Amazing benefits and pay. Can help create things billions of people use.
Cons: Big company, have to deal with a lot of politics. Really feel like a small fish in a big pond, not really getting a say in what happens with your feature.

Big corporate bureaucracy

Software Development Engineer • Current Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

Pros: Good health benefit, good, big campus. Easily get insulated, meet many people. Social opportunities, nice view in Seattle, good office.

Cons: Not fair. Manager fights for political reasons, not merit-based promotion. Top manager does not know or try to learn technology. It is becoming a local government agency.

3.0
Big corporate bureaucracy
Software Development Engineer • Current Employee
Redmond, Washington, United States
April 14, 2010
Pros: Good health benefit, good, big campus. Easily get insulated, meet many people. Social opportunities, nice view in Seattle, good office.
Cons: Not fair. Manager fights for political reasons, not merit-based promotion. Top manager does not know or try to learn technology. It is becoming a local government agency.

Fun summer internship (SDE)

Software Development Engineer • Former Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

February 24, 2013

Pros: Great team to work with - working on products millions of people use. Good benefits, flexible work hours.

Cons: It's a little odd being part of such a huge corporation, where you can see your group's interests may conflict with other groups in the company. You can't help but root for your own group/section and be a little dismayed at the coordinated, across-the-board strategies. Depending on the group you join, you may find yourself stuck in a very C++-only world with lots and lots, and lots, of legacy code.

4.0
Fun summer internship (SDE)
Software Development Engineer • Former Employee
Redmond, Washington, United States
February 24, 2013
Pros: Great team to work with - working on products millions of people use. Good benefits, flexible work hours.
Cons: It's a little odd being part of such a huge corporation, where you can see your group's interests may conflict with other groups in the company. You can't help but root for your own group/section and be a little dismayed at the coordinated, across-the-board strategies. Depending on the group you join, you may find yourself stuck in a very C++-only world with lots and lots, and lots, of legacy code.

Microsoft Interview Questions

Minimum Edge Reversals So Every Node Is Reachable

You're given a directed graph. Determine the minimum number of edges you need to reverse so that every node becomes reachable from node 0.

GraphsDynamic Programming

Two Sum

Find two numbers in a given array that add up to a specific target value, and return their indices. Essentially, you need to efficiently locate the pair that satisfies the sum requirement.

Valid Word

Determine if a given word is considered valid based on a specific set of rules or constraints. The goal is to check if the input string adheres to the specified validation criteria.

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