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Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

September 20, 2018

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Process

There are two interview processes. The first round was a phone interview, asking some behavioral questions and then a technical question. You choose the language in which you want to write your code. If you passed, you would go to the second round, where they fly you in and give you three interviews of hardcore technical questions.

Questions

behavioral and technical

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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.

Working at Microsoft

Software Development Engineer • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

January 29, 2017

Pros: I worked in a very flexible team and had the chance to work on anything I found interesting. In particular, I had the chance to collaborate with Microsoft Research, even though mine is an SDE role.

Cons: The company is too big. There's lots of politics and internal friction.

Working at Microsoft

Software Development Engineer • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

January 29, 2017

Pros: I worked in a very flexible team and had the chance to work on anything I found interesting. In particular, I had the chance to collaborate with Microsoft Research, even though mine is an SDE role.

Cons: The company is too big. There's lots of politics and internal friction.

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.

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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.

Working at Microsoft

Software Development Engineer • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

January 29, 2017

Pros: I worked in a very flexible team and had the chance to work on anything I found interesting. In particular, I had the chance to collaborate with Microsoft Research, even though mine is an SDE role.

Cons: The company is too big. There's lots of politics and internal friction.

5.0
Working at Microsoft
Software Development Engineer • Current Employee
Seattle, Washington, United States
January 29, 2017
Pros: I worked in a very flexible team and had the chance to work on anything I found interesting. In particular, I had the chance to collaborate with Microsoft Research, even though mine is an SDE role.
Cons: The company is too big. There's lots of politics and internal friction.

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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