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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Diego, California

April 1, 2021
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Process

I had an initial phone screen with a relatively easy coding question, followed by four rounds of interviews.

Of the four interviews:

  • Three were technical.
  • One was mainly behavioral.

Of the three technical interviews, I would rate the difficulty as:

  • One LeetCode Easy.
  • One Medium.
  • One Hard.

Questions

  1. Given a list of strings, return all strings that are palindromes.
  2. Given a list of integers, return all prime numbers.
  3. Given a source code file, how would you write a program to remove all comments from the file?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 7 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineer role in San Diego, California.

Success Rate

29%
Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Diego, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive43%
Neutral14%
Negative43%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Microsoft's Software Engineer interview process in San Diego, California.

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