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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

October 1, 2015
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Process

I briefly chatted with a recruiter during a school career fair and dropped off my resume.

I was contacted for an on-campus screening interview the very next day. This interview went fairly smoothly, but I then heard nothing for more than a month. At this point, I assumed that I had been filtered out in the first round.

However, I received an email from the recruiter informing me that I would soon be scheduled for an on-site interview. Again, this was followed by radio silence for another month, at which point I had basically given up.

More than two months after the first screen, I finally got an on-site scheduled in Seattle, which consisted of 4 interviews (3 technical, 1 behavioral) over the course of a day.

The interviewers and recruiters were nice, but it was still somewhat frustrating having my application hang in limbo for so long.

Questions

Technical: Questions about trees of different kinds (building, maintaining, and walking binary trees and special variants). Asked to pseudocode an efficient algorithm for processing and reassembling data from possibly overlapping TCP packets.

Behavioral: Mostly standard questions about projects listed on my resume (e.g., "Tell me about a time when you had to balance stakeholders in the design of a product...").

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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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