Microsoft

Software Development Engineer Interview Experience

January 1, 2015

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

You received an invitation from a Microsoft recruiter and then waited for the phone interview. After that, you have multiple skill tests, such as C++/Java, and personal/IQ tests. These may include tasks like being given a list of numbers to guess the next number.

Questions

If you can't access a website, how can you solve it?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 634 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Development Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

29%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive57%

Neutral32%

Negative11%

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

Microsoft Work Experiences

Exciting work and great people, but only if you are in the right BU

Software Development Engineer • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

October 7, 2012

Pros: Smart people. Solving large-scale problems. Great office facilities. One big MS family. Dogfood the latest tech. Getting a Windows Surface tablet. A multi-vertical business company.

Cons: The cross-core and cross-country teams don't always get along. Some projects are so big that you get partial ownership, which can affect your work. You could get stuck in their tech stack and not move on to other things later.

Exciting work and great people, but only if you are in the right BU

Software Development Engineer • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

October 7, 2012

Pros: Smart people. Solving large-scale problems. Great office facilities. One big MS family. Dogfood the latest tech. Getting a Windows Surface tablet. A multi-vertical business company.

Cons: The cross-core and cross-country teams don't always get along. Some projects are so big that you get partial ownership, which can affect your work. You could get stuck in their tech stack and not move on to other things later.

Great place to work

Software Development Engineer • Current Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

January 8, 2015

Pros: The company is very forward-looking with the new leadership (Satya). The culture is rapidly evolving to be caught up with, or ahead of, the competition. It has a wide reach, with lots of opportunities to make an impact on the world. Time-off is very flexible. Work-life balance is well managed on most teams.

Cons: Lots of legacy/historical processes are slowing down the company, making work frustrating at times. Currently, there is a lot of churn to reach the "ideal state" as quickly as possible (as mentioned in the pros). Company culture is still not very in-tune with the rest of the market and how competitors do their business at a tactical level, but this is improving in the last year.

Great place to work

Software Development Engineer • Current Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

January 8, 2015

Pros: The company is very forward-looking with the new leadership (Satya). The culture is rapidly evolving to be caught up with, or ahead of, the competition. It has a wide reach, with lots of opportunities to make an impact on the world. Time-off is very flexible. Work-life balance is well managed on most teams.

Cons: Lots of legacy/historical processes are slowing down the company, making work frustrating at times. Currently, there is a lot of churn to reach the "ideal state" as quickly as possible (as mentioned in the pros). Company culture is still not very in-tune with the rest of the market and how competitors do their business at a tactical level, but this is improving in the last year.

Shallow Company, which lost its glam, is running purely on brand value. (Specific to MSIT)

Software Development Engineer • Former Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

Pros: Brand For a few lucky guys, Redmond has a chance.

Cons: Too much politics. Lost focus. Too people-centered (read manager). No transparency. Sinking ship with many firings happening every other day.

Shallow Company, which lost its glam, is running purely on brand value. (Specific to MSIT)

Software Development Engineer • Former Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

Pros: Brand For a few lucky guys, Redmond has a chance.

Cons: Too much politics. Lost focus. Too people-centered (read manager). No transparency. Sinking ship with many firings happening every other day.

Exciting work and great people, but only if you are in the right BU

Software Development Engineer • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

October 7, 2012

Pros: Smart people. Solving large-scale problems. Great office facilities. One big MS family. Dogfood the latest tech. Getting a Windows Surface tablet. A multi-vertical business company.

Cons: The cross-core and cross-country teams don't always get along. Some projects are so big that you get partial ownership, which can affect your work. You could get stuck in their tech stack and not move on to other things later.

4.0
Exciting work and great people, but only if you are in the right BU
Software Development Engineer • Former Employee
Seattle, Washington, United States
October 7, 2012
Pros: Smart people. Solving large-scale problems. Great office facilities. One big MS family. Dogfood the latest tech. Getting a Windows Surface tablet. A multi-vertical business company.
Cons: The cross-core and cross-country teams don't always get along. Some projects are so big that you get partial ownership, which can affect your work. You could get stuck in their tech stack and not move on to other things later.

Great place to work

Software Development Engineer • Current Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

January 8, 2015

Pros: The company is very forward-looking with the new leadership (Satya). The culture is rapidly evolving to be caught up with, or ahead of, the competition. It has a wide reach, with lots of opportunities to make an impact on the world. Time-off is very flexible. Work-life balance is well managed on most teams.

Cons: Lots of legacy/historical processes are slowing down the company, making work frustrating at times. Currently, there is a lot of churn to reach the "ideal state" as quickly as possible (as mentioned in the pros). Company culture is still not very in-tune with the rest of the market and how competitors do their business at a tactical level, but this is improving in the last year.

5.0
Great place to work
Software Development Engineer • Current Employee
Redmond, Washington, United States
January 8, 2015
Pros: The company is very forward-looking with the new leadership (Satya). The culture is rapidly evolving to be caught up with, or ahead of, the competition. It has a wide reach, with lots of opportunities to make an impact on the world. Time-off is very flexible. Work-life balance is well managed on most teams.
Cons: Lots of legacy/historical processes are slowing down the company, making work frustrating at times. Currently, there is a lot of churn to reach the "ideal state" as quickly as possible (as mentioned in the pros). Company culture is still not very in-tune with the rest of the market and how competitors do their business at a tactical level, but this is improving in the last year.

Shallow Company, which lost its glam, is running purely on brand value. (Specific to MSIT)

Software Development Engineer • Former Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

Pros: Brand For a few lucky guys, Redmond has a chance.

Cons: Too much politics. Lost focus. Too people-centered (read manager). No transparency. Sinking ship with many firings happening every other day.

2.0
Shallow Company, which lost its glam, is running purely on brand value. (Specific to MSIT)
Software Development Engineer • Former Employee
Hyderābād, Telangana, India
April 3, 2015
Pros: Brand For a few lucky guys, Redmond has a chance.
Cons: Too much politics. Lost focus. Too people-centered (read manager). No transparency. Sinking ship with many firings happening every other day.

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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