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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Australia

August 22, 2018
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied through a campus recruiting system and a referral. Had a short interview on campus.

Moved on to an on-site interview in my city that was one day. I had four interviews, where the questions were all LeetCode easy and medium, or a famous hard.

Interviewers typed on their laptops to write notes while I was whiteboarding. While they did pre-emptively say that they weren't intentionally being rude, many typed so much that it gave me a bad vibe.

Questions

I was asked a question about how I would store a painting that contained shapes, which in turn contained points.

I didn't realize the interviewer expected me to do a system design, and I awkwardly talked to her for half an hour to clarify what she meant.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 29 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineer role in Australia.

Success Rate

28%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive62%
Neutral24%
Negative14%

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

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