I interviewed with Microsoft at the Redmond office through an employee referral.
I first had a phone screen with basic coding, logical, and behavioral questions.
After this, I was selected for the on-site interview at the Redmond campus.
I had five rounds of interviews, including a lunch interview, over the span of 6-7 hours. It was primarily technical, except for the last interview with a senior technical manager, which also included behavioral questions.
Write a function to find the middle of a linked list. Use it to perform merge sort on a linked list.
Implement a hash table.
API design for tic tac toe.
Data structure design for a modified version of a priority queue.
API design for a running tracker/recommendation app.
The following metrics were computed from 207 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineer role in Redmond, Washington.
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.
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Microsoft's Software Engineer interview process in Redmond, Washington.