Microsoft

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

September 1, 2017

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Met with a recruiter at a campus job fair.

Had an on-campus interview the following week that was mostly technical.

Got rejected for the summer of 2017 but received an offer for an onsite interview for the next summer.

At the onsite interview, I had four interviews: one behavioral and three mostly technical with varying degrees of difficulty.

Questions

Combine an ascending sorted list and a descending order list.

Determine if a string is a permutation of another string.

Question about utilizing a max heap.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 35 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineer (Internship) role in Seattle, Washington.

Success Rate

37%

Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in Seattle, Washington is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive89%

Neutral11%

Negative0%

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

Slow Change, Nice Campus

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: Stable, beautiful campus, great facilities. Fairly good benefits.

Cons: Microsoft is too big. It is extremely slow to make a turn. It has all the legacy of enterprise software. When building something new, the thinking is always to reuse the old stuff and they have to think about backward compatibility.

Slow Change, Nice Campus

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: Stable, beautiful campus, great facilities. Fairly good benefits.

Cons: Microsoft is too big. It is extremely slow to make a turn. It has all the legacy of enterprise software. When building something new, the thinking is always to reuse the old stuff and they have to think about backward compatibility.

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.

Slow Change, Nice Campus

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: Stable, beautiful campus, great facilities. Fairly good benefits.

Cons: Microsoft is too big. It is extremely slow to make a turn. It has all the legacy of enterprise software. When building something new, the thinking is always to reuse the old stuff and they have to think about backward compatibility.

3.0
Slow Change, Nice Campus
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Seattle, Washington, United States
April 29, 2015
Pros: Stable, beautiful campus, great facilities. Fairly good benefits.
Cons: Microsoft is too big. It is extremely slow to make a turn. It has all the legacy of enterprise software. When building something new, the thinking is always to reuse the old stuff and they have to think about backward compatibility.

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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