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Software Development Engineer Interview Experience - United States

October 16, 2015
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I sent my resume to Microsoft at a school career fair and received an email three weeks later. The interview was held on campus. I was first asked one behavioral question, then a question about binary trees. I spent some time finding the idea to solve the problem and was then asked to write code on a blank sheet.

Questions

Here are the interview questions:

  1. What is the biggest technical challenge you have met in your internship/projects?

  2. Given a node of a binary tree, find the next node of the in-order traversal of the tree.

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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.

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