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Software Engineer Interview Experience

February 1, 2020
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A long process, built of many sessions.

It started with a Zoom talk that was more HR-like, then moved on to three more technical interviews. The last one was the longest and most challenging.

Questions

Detect cycle in a List.

Implement merge for mergesort.

Construct a BST from inorder and preorder traversals.

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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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