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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Dublin, Ireland

February 1, 2017
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Process

Local campus interview.

Basic information + case-scenario questions about collaboration, mostly.

On-site interview.

  • Four rounds of 45 minutes each.
  • Every round consisted of an introduction of the interviewer, a few personal questions, programming challenges, and testing questions.
  • In between interviews, we interviewees had a chance to talk and get some refreshments.

Everyone was kind, and overall, I got a good impression.

Questions

Reverse the words in a string.

Write a method to parse an integer from a string.

Find the lowest common ancestor in a tree.

In a two-dimensional array containing 0s and 1s, find the largest coherent group of 1s. (Two 1s are coherent if they are placed next to each other in a direction N, E, S, or W).

Write a method IntToString which converts an integer to a string with thousands separators.

How would you test a marker, keyboard, web service...?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 41 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineer role in Dublin, Ireland.

Success Rate

24%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive51%
Neutral34%
Negative15%

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

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