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Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - Redmond, Washington

November 1, 2024

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Applied directly through LinkedIn. No referral needed.

Immediately advanced to the final round, which consisted of two back-to-back 45-minute interviews.

First Round:

Resume questions
Behavioral questions
1-D DP LeetCode problem

Second Round:

Resume questions
System design
Problem-solving process

It took approximately one month from application to offer.

Previous experience: 4 internships (2 at FAANG+ companies).

Questions

Questions about Operating Systems because I said I took an OS class.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 102 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineer (Internship) role in Redmond, Washington.

Success Rate

66%

Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in Redmond, Washington is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive83%

Neutral13%

Negative4%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Microsoft's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in Redmond, Washington.

Microsoft Work Experiences

Good Learning, Needed Support

Software Engineer (Internship) • Current Employee

Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

August 27, 2020

Pros: Good salary and actual learning opportunity

Cons: Lack of documentation and need for more support.

Good Learning, Needed Support

Software Engineer (Internship) • Current Employee

Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

August 27, 2020

Pros: Good salary and actual learning opportunity

Cons: Lack of documentation and need for more support.

Good Practical Work

Software Engineer (Internship) • Former Employee

Belgrade, Central Serbia, Serbia

October 20, 2022

Pros: Working environment is perfect. People are friendly and ready to talk about work and hobbies in their free time. I have learned a lot during the internship, from practical coding skills to the theoretical background of distributed systems.

Cons: No cons for me at this internship.

Good Practical Work

Software Engineer (Internship) • Former Employee

Belgrade, Central Serbia, Serbia

October 20, 2022

Pros: Working environment is perfect. People are friendly and ready to talk about work and hobbies in their free time. I have learned a lot during the internship, from practical coding skills to the theoretical background of distributed systems.

Cons: No cons for me at this internship.

Good work-life balance, experiences generally good but depend on team/manager

Software Development Engineer • Former Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

October 4, 2020

Pros: Good work-life balance, good cultural inclusion.

Cons: Work can be either exciting or not interesting. It is possible for projects to be canceled.

Good work-life balance, experiences generally good but depend on team/manager

Software Development Engineer • Former Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

October 4, 2020

Pros: Good work-life balance, good cultural inclusion.

Cons: Work can be either exciting or not interesting. It is possible for projects to be canceled.

Good Learning, Needed Support

Software Engineer (Internship) • Current Employee

Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

August 27, 2020

Pros: Good salary and actual learning opportunity

Cons: Lack of documentation and need for more support.

4.0
Good Learning, Needed Support
Software Engineer (Internship) • Current Employee
Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
August 27, 2020
Pros: Good salary and actual learning opportunity
Cons: Lack of documentation and need for more support.

Good Practical Work

Software Engineer (Internship) • Former Employee

Belgrade, Central Serbia, Serbia

October 20, 2022

Pros: Working environment is perfect. People are friendly and ready to talk about work and hobbies in their free time. I have learned a lot during the internship, from practical coding skills to the theoretical background of distributed systems.

Cons: No cons for me at this internship.

5.0
Good Practical Work
Software Engineer (Internship) • Former Employee
Belgrade, Central Serbia, Serbia
October 20, 2022
Pros: Working environment is perfect. People are friendly and ready to talk about work and hobbies in their free time. I have learned a lot during the internship, from practical coding skills to the theoretical background of distributed systems.
Cons: No cons for me at this internship.

Good work-life balance, experiences generally good but depend on team/manager

Software Development Engineer • Former Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

October 4, 2020

Pros: Good work-life balance, good cultural inclusion.

Cons: Work can be either exciting or not interesting. It is possible for projects to be canceled.

4.0
Good work-life balance, experiences generally good but depend on team/manager
Software Development Engineer • Former Employee
Redmond, Washington, United States
October 4, 2020
Pros: Good work-life balance, good cultural inclusion.
Cons: Work can be either exciting or not interesting. It is possible for projects to be canceled.

Microsoft Interview Questions

Minimum Edge Reversals So Every Node Is Reachable

You're given a directed graph. Determine the minimum number of edges you need to reverse so that every node becomes reachable from node 0.

GraphsDynamic Programming

Two Sum

Find two numbers in a given array that add up to a specific target value, and return their indices. Essentially, you need to efficiently locate the pair that satisfies the sum requirement.

Valid Word

Determine if a given word is considered valid based on a specific set of rules or constraints. The goal is to check if the input string adheres to the specified validation criteria.

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