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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Redmond, Washington

September 1, 2018
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Process

The interview process was long, with moderately difficult questions, approximately Codeforces C level difficulty.

Interviewers cared more about soft skills and the ability to reason outside the box, such as how one would change the question to make their algorithm more efficient.

Questions

Compute the Hamming distance between two bitstreams.

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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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