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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Redmond, Washington

February 1, 2016
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Process

Applied online.

A recruiter contacted me and set up a phone screen. The phone screen lasted 45 minutes and consisted of puzzles and questions about my resume, past experiences, and projects.

I received a reply within 2 days stating I had cleared the phone round and would move on to the onsite interviews.

It took almost 2 months to schedule the onsite due to scheduling conflicts.

Onsite interviews began after lunch and consisted of 4 back-to-back interviews of about 45 minutes each. Three of these were coding interviews, and one was a design problem. All were conducted on the whiteboard.

Questions

DS and algorithms-based questions. Questions similar to the moderate/hard from CTCI.

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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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