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      Software Development Engineer Interview

      Aug 3, 2014
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Bellevue, WA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bellevue, WA) in Jun 2014

      Interview

      I wen through the full interview process, from recruiter screen up to the full day in person interviews in Bellevue (the position was for the Dynamics AX platform). My initial technical screen was pretty standard, the question was determining if two strings were anagrams of each other. Aside from this I was able to speak with the senior engineer who was interviewing my about the position and some pro's and con's which was really great. He provided some good insight for me. After the technical screen I was invited in for full day of interviews in Bellevue. I flew out to Seattle and stayed for 2 nights. The entire travel process was great, they covered everything and put me up in a nice hotel. The interview day was long, I had a series of interviews each testing different areas. All of the interviews were with senior engineers with 5 - 20 years experience. The first interview covered SQL, I was given a schema and asked to point out any issues/improvements and then write some queries. The next 2 covered CS based questions like algorithms, runtime analysis .. etc. Next I had a lunch interview where I was able to talk with another engineer about his role and get a little more of a sense of the day to day life. Finally I had one more algorithms based interview and that was the end. Overall I found that the interview process was very well done and the hr staff at Microsoft were really easy to deal with. When it comes to the atmosphere at Microsoft it has a really corporate feel to it and truthfully it was not my top choice having been there but that's more of a personal preference.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Given a number write a function to convert that number to a string that would be seen on a cheque. Example: 2376 becomes two thousand three hundred and seventy six.
      Answer question
      1

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      Jul 22, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

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      I interviewed at Microsoft

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      Jun 20, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
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      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft in Dec 2024

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      I was invited to a technical interview with Microsoft. The interviewer started with a general question: “What happens when you type google.com into your browser?” They asked a few follow-up questions related to that. After that, they gave me a LeetCode algorithmic question, which was at a hard level. The problem was “Integer to English Words.”

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1. What happens when you type google.com into your browser? 2. “Integer to English Words” – LeetCode algorithmic question
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      Software Development Engineer Interview

      Feb 28, 2024
      Anonymous employee
      Shanghái, Shanghai
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Microsoft (Shanghái, Shanghai)

      Interview

      Three tech interviews + one hiring manager VO, most of questions are medium to hard leetcode questions. Ask some questions about techniques you written on the resume. But I think they care more about the match of the research and the job.

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