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Software Development Engineer Interview Experience - Sydney, Australia

November 25, 2013
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I handed my resume to the people at the Microsoft stand at my university's career fair and received an email a few weeks later asking me to come in for an initial screening.

I spoke with one person for half an hour about myself, including my approach to software engineering and the importance of encapsulation.

The next half hour was spent solving a simple C problem and discussing the differences between Java and C++.

A few days later, I was invited for a full interview, scheduled for a month later. It was a four-hour marathon session with four software developers.

Questions

This one took me by surprise: write a function in C that will verify if an IPv4 address is correct or not.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 13 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Development Engineer role in Sydney, Australia.

Success Rate

46%
Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Software Development Engineer roles in Sydney, Australia is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive85%
Neutral15%
Negative0%

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

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