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Software Engineer II Interview Experience

August 1, 2012
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Process

I was referred by a previous employee to a team that was looking to hire.

I submitted my resume.

HR set up a phone interview with a senior engineer. The interview included coding questions:

  • Iterate a tree in order, pre-order, and post-order, recursively.
  • Iterate a tree pre-order and in order, iteratively.

An iterative post-order traversal is somewhat obscure.

Questions

If your manager asked you to design a new C memory allocator (malloc() and free()), what changes would you make to the current one?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 77 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineer II role in United States.

Success Rate

31%
Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Software Engineer II roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive58%
Neutral23%
Negative18%

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

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