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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Redmond, Washington

December 1, 2015
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Process

I had an interview on my school campus and made it to the final round of interviews on Microsoft's campus. You sit in a room with about 20 other candidates and do about 5 interviews with different interviewers. After your interviews, you receive free lunch, free sweatshirts, and free taxi vouchers.

Questions weren't too hard, and I thought I did really well. However, apparently, I didn't stand out enough among the hundreds of people they were interviewing that day.

Questions

Reverse a string.

Write an algorithm to figure out who the winner of a tic-tac-toe board was.

Addition using linked lists (each node holds one digit).

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 207 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineer role in Redmond, Washington.

Success Rate

47%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive77%
Neutral14%
Negative8%

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

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