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Software Engineer Interview Experience

January 1, 2021
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The first round interview is around 40 minutes. The recruiter asks about the projects you wrote on your resume. There is also one easy-level coding question on processing strings: given a string with special characters, how to add them together.

Questions

Given a string with special characters, how to add them together.

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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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