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Software Engineering Interview Experience - Redmond, Washington

November 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied at a school career fair and had a 30-minute on-campus interview.

I was invited for final rounds in Redmond.

I interviewed with a Bing team for a big data/ML role.

Overall, the experience was quite good.

I had 4 interviews in total:

  • 3 were very nice and engaging the whole time.
  • The last interviewer was awful and did not pay attention to me at all. He gave a very difficult interview question and then spent the whole time on his laptop.

Questions

System design question about handling jobs using multiple processors. I wrote some code based on my design.

Given a sentence held in a linked list (where each letter is a node) and words separated by nodes that are a single space, reverse the sentence.

Given a dictionary and one string, create a valid sentence from the string by adding spaces in appropriate places. This was difficult because it required knowing to backtrack recursively.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 10 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineering role in Redmond, Washington.

Success Rate

50%
Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Software Engineering roles in Redmond, Washington is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive90%
Neutral10%
Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Microsoft's Software Engineering interview process in Redmond, Washington.

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