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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

January 1, 2019
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Process

I applied to a data science job and put my resume in their candidate pool.

Later, I was contacted by a manager from MS's experimentation platform. I then had a phone interview with a SWE, and next was flown out to Seattle for an onsite interview.

Questions

Implement binary search for a BST.

Validate a sequence of parentheses and brackets. A subsequence cannot be closed before it is opened.

Examples of invalid sequences:

  • ](
  • (]

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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.

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