Taro Logo

Software Engineer Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

December 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

The interview process was smooth. It included an initial screening test to evaluate coding skills, followed by onsite interviews. The initial screening test was an online coding test lasting 1 hour. The expectation was to write clean code and add comments.

Questions

General data-structure questions.

In one round, the expectation was to ask questions rather than just solve them.

Was this helpful?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 135 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineer role in Seattle, Washington.

Success Rate

15%
Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Seattle, Washington is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive61%
Neutral27%
Negative12%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Microsoft's Software Engineer interview process in Seattle, Washington.

Microsoft Work Experiences