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Technical Evangelist Interview Experience - San Jose, California

November 1, 2016

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had an interview with a series of 4 or 5 Technical Engineers in person, and one phone interview prior to that. I was taken up to their Northern California campus and led around to various offices for a series of interview questions. Of those, I had more interviews related to abstractly figuring out problems software product manufacturers were having, and less on actual coding expertise. The process took about 3 hours, not counting the short breaks in-between interviews. Thankfully, I was with a group of other people interviewing at the same time, so the interviews were one-on-one, but I could at least talk to them before, during, and after to decompress a little.

Questions

How would you manage to work with an API that does not have support for a critical function of the customer's product?

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Microsoft's interview process for their Technical Evangelist roles in San Jose, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Microsoft's Technical Evangelist interview process in San Jose, California.

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