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I had a one-hour screen phone interview that lasted 30 minutes, which was just introductions. Then, seven days later, I had one technical interview. I did not get a callback, but there were many applicants.

The interviewers were very nice. Applicants are dual-tracked for PM and SE roles, but the interviews focused mainly on the technical side of things. They didn't really care about language choice or writing 100% proper code on the whiteboard. They c

I placed second in our school's Microsoft-sponsored coding challenge. Afterward, I gave the competition organizers my resume. A few weeks later, I was contacted by Microsoft recruiters. They requested a one-on-one interview with a software engineer w