Software Engineer Interview Experience - Redmond, Washington
October 1, 2017
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Process
One online coding challenge with 3 relatively simple questions (mainly debugging and testing your knowledge with the language).
Then a direct onsite round with 4 rounds (45 min each).
Each round includes 5-10 minutes of chit-chat, and a technical question.
Questions
- A simple backtracking problem: parse a given string for a specific type of substrings.
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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.
Microsoft Work Experiences
4.0
Great place to work
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Redmond, Washington, United States
February 21, 2025
Pros: Stability, Benefit, Career growth to senior.
Cons: Process overhead; politics; non-CS engineers moving up using politics.
3.0
Azure Software Engineer Review
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Redmond, Washington, United States
September 24, 2025
Pros: I was able to take ownership of certain product areas. Everyone on the team was really smart.
Cons: Work-life balance in Azure was horrible. Oncall for three weeks at a time, even though it's 12-hour shifts (the India team takes over at night). It was nonstop issues for the 12 hours. I started dreading the month of oncall. My pager would go off constantly, and I'd be pulled in 10 different directions. I'd have to involve my teammates when they weren't on call. And when I wasn't on call, I'd get involved with livesite all the time as well.
5.0
Awesome company to work at
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Redmond, Washington, United States
July 29, 2024
Pros: Great work-life balance.
Good compensation off.
Great leadership team.
Cons: Pay not as competitive. Can be better.
- 4.0Great place to workSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeRedmond, Washington, United StatesFebruary 21, 2025Pros: Stability, Benefit, Career growth to senior.Cons: Process overhead; politics; non-CS engineers moving up using politics.
- 3.0Azure Software Engineer ReviewSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeRedmond, Washington, United StatesSeptember 24, 2025Pros: I was able to take ownership of certain product areas. Everyone on the team was really smart.Cons: Work-life balance in Azure was horrible. Oncall for three weeks at a time, even though it's 12-hour shifts (the India team takes over at night). It was nonstop issues for the 12 hours. I started dreading the month of oncall. My pager would go off constantly, and I'd be pulled in 10 different directions. I'd have to involve my teammates when they weren't on call. And when I wasn't on call, I'd get involved with livesite all the time as well.
- 5.0Awesome company to work atSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeRedmond, Washington, United StatesJuly 29, 2024Pros: Great work-life balance. Good compensation off. Great leadership team.Cons: Pay not as competitive. Can be better.
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