Process
I was doing a full day onsite interview. I was flown out to Seattle and put up in the Marriott.
On the morning of my interview, I checked in and was debriefed about the day's schedule.
I then had four interviews. I had lunch with my second interviewer before he asked any technical questions.
Questions
Given a binary tree (not necessarily complete), how would you do a traversal where at the first level you traverse from left to right, and at the second level you traverse from right to left, continuing to alternate at every given level, as if you're snaking through the BT?
Given a function that rolls a 6-sided die (numbered 1-6), how would you use it to return a number between 1 and 8 with fair randomness?
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 11 interview experiences for the Microsoft SWE role in Redmond, Washington.
Success Rate
Microsoft's interview process for their SWE roles in Redmond, Washington is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Microsoft's SWE interview process in Redmond, Washington.
Microsoft Work Experiences
- 5.0Purely Great ExperienceSWE • Current EmployeeRedmond, Washington, United StatesJanuary 13, 2021Pros: Great, great, great, great, great.Cons: nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing
- 5.0Nice People, Low PaySWE • Current EmployeeRedmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 22, 2020Pros: Nice people. Laid back. Rest and vest.Cons: Low pay. On call. Not a lot of young people.
- 5.0Nice place to workSWE • Current EmployeeRedmond, Washington, United StatesOctober 31, 2018Pros: Not too stressful environment on most teams. Work the way you want culture.Cons: Office politics Can feel like a small gear in a big machine.
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