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Software Development Engineer Interview Experience - Turkey

December 1, 2012
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Recruiter approach via employee referral, after several email exchanges containing resume and questionnaire.

1st Interview: Skype, 45 minutes.

  • 1 coding problem on CollabEdit with side questions about complexity and how to reduce memory usage.

Again, some email exchange about legal stuff and information about the recruitment process.

2nd Interview: Face-to-face, 3 interviews each 50 minutes.

  • Coding questions on paper or on a whiteboard.

Questions

  1. Find the break point of an integer sequence (e.g., 4 6 10 20 21 23 40 5 7 13, answer 5) whose size is big and unknown.

  2. Implement Singleton.

  3. State the time complexity of insert, delete, and search operations on a linked list, array, and binary tree.

  4. Print a linked list from start and in reverse (iterative and recursive).

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Development Engineer role in Turkey.

Success Rate

0%
Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Software Development Engineer roles in Turkey is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive50%
Neutral0%
Negative50%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Microsoft's Software Development Engineer interview process in Turkey.

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