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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Bellevue, Washington

November 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The first interview was an on-campus screening at my university. It was about 45 minutes in length and I was asked two behavioral questions and one technical question. In this interview, you're asked which Microsoft teams you're interested in joining, which will later be reflected in which team will interview you in the second round. After two weeks, I got an email from an interviewer scheduler for an on-site interview at Microsoft's headquarters in Bellevue, Washington.

The interviews, at least in my case, were three back-to-back interviews with engineers from the Cloud & Enterprise team. The interviews were each one hour in length and they varied from technical questions, design questions, and behavioral questions.

Overall, it was a good experience. They paid for the whole trip, sightseeing, food, and Uber!

Questions

Given a computer with small memory and a file that is large in size (assume greater than the size of the computer's memory), how would you sort this file (assume the file consists of numbers separated by a space)?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 21 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineer role in Bellevue, Washington.

Success Rate

24%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive71%
Neutral24%
Negative5%

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

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