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Software Development Engineer Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

March 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

  1. Handed in my resume to HR during the campus career fair.

  2. Got an on-campus interview, which lasted one hour and was not difficult. Received a response 1.5 weeks later.

  3. Had an onsite with five interviews: four technical and one behavioral. The onsite mentor provided was the best I have heard of, which really made me start to like this company and Seattle.

Questions

  1. How to design a cache data structure for a certain search use case.

  2. String comparison/manipulation, and non-binary tree traversal to find a root-based path qualifying a certain requirement.

  3. Search an element from a matrix.

  4. String reversing with some special characters to check. Binary tree level-by-level traversal.

  5. What are you expecting to be in 5 years? Talk about previous working experience.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 83 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Development Engineer role in Seattle, Washington.

Success Rate

23%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive54%
Neutral31%
Negative14%

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

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