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Software Engineer II Interview Experience - Vancouver, British Columbia

February 2, 2016
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Process

The interview process starts with:

  • A phone interview
  • An onsite interview

My onsite interview took place in Vancouver and consisted of five technical interviews. Three were technical, and one was behavioral.

I received two Algorithms and one System Design question. If you make it to the Hiring Manager, that's a very positive sign.

I received an offer two weeks later. I also interviewed at Google and Amazon. The difficulty was higher than Amazon but easier than Google.

I had a competing offer from Amazon, which helped me negotiate up by $15,000 and manage to get a $10,000 sign-on bonus.

Questions

Interview #1:

Q1. Print a Tree in level order in a Zigzag way.

Interview #2:

Q. Swap LinkedList nodes (odd-even pair).

Interview #3:

Q. Design a Web crawler. The tricky part was invalidating crawled content if the content gets updated.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineer II role in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Success Rate

67%
Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Software Engineer II roles in Vancouver, British Columbia is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive33%
Neutral33%
Negative33%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Microsoft's Software Engineer II interview process in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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