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Software Development Engineer Interview Experience - Russia

March 8, 2013
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A recruiter contacted me via LinkedIn and invited me to apply for a job with the Bing team. I knew they had planned an interview session in Moscow in a month or two. I sent my CV to the recruiter and received no reply. After three weeks, I wrote a letter to remind them about me, and it worked; she asked me to resend my CV. After that, I received an invitation for a phone screening. I generally had an idea of what they might ask me, so I tried to make some preparations for the interview. However, as I see now, it was not enough to proceed further in this kind of recruitment process.

The Skype interview was not difficult at the start. My English is not very good, but I understood almost everything. The interviewer quickly asked me about my most complex projects and moved on to technical questions. The first two were very easy, then he asked me to write code to solve a task on a linked list. I had to write the code right in Skype.

Questions

Write the code to rotate the linked list in the Skype input window.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Development Engineer role in Russia.

Success Rate

25%
Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Software Development Engineer roles in Russia is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive50%
Neutral25%
Negative25%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Microsoft's Software Development Engineer interview process in Russia.

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