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Software Engineer Interview Experience

October 1, 2020
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied for the Ability Hiring Event because I am Autistic. The final round of interviews was virtual.

However, the interview still felt like it was for a neurotypical person, as my interviewers expected me to act "normal". It was no different from all my previous interviews. I could not be myself the entire time.

Ability Hiring Event? More like a scam.

Questions

Reverse a singly linked list in groups of k.

Ex. input list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]

  • For k = 2, result is [2, 1, 4, 3, 6, 5, 8, 7, 10, 9]
  • For k = 3, result is [3, 2, 1, 6, 5, 4, 9, 8, 7, 10]
  • For k = 4, result is [4, 3, 2, 1, 8, 7, 6, 5, 10, 9]

If you wanted a green button but your teammate wanted a pink button, what would you do? How do you handle this situation?

Find the kth largest number in a stream. If there are less than k numbers, return the maximum.

Rearrange all characters in a given string into a palindrome if it's possible.

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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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