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Software Engineer Interview Experience

December 1, 2017
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied through university for a role in Mountain View, CA and received an invitation to an on-campus interview with a representative. The interviewer was fairly chill but also pretty "doesn't give a f***." He had likely been doing it all day and, as I was the second-to-last interview, he was probably tired.

Afterwards, I got invited to an on-campus interview in SEATTLE. I had applied for a role in Mountain View and was being flown out to Seattle. I thought this was a bit strange but not out of the question, since their HQ is in WA.

I got on-site and had five total interviews, one of which was behavioral. Right before my third interview started, I received an email from my recruiter stating that the role I was applying for in Mountain View had been accidentally marked as available and was actually not being hired for. Thus, my recruiter told me that if I wanted to, I could just leave and go home. I decided to finish the remaining interviews anyway for practice, but this was overall a giant waste of time. I got flown out to Seattle for two days for nothing.

Questions

Implement a Priority Queue using a Stack

Sudoku design question

Write a function that will take the product of 2 numbers without using any arithmetic operators (optimize better than O(N))

Print out the outer edges of a tree (right, bottom, left)

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 999 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

25%
Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive64%
Neutral26%
Negative11%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Microsoft's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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