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      Software Engineering In Test Interview

      13 Sept 2011
      Anonymous employee
      Redmond, WA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jun 2009

      Interview

      First I got a 1 phone interview. That is not very technical. After that I immediately get a on-site interview inviataion. I accepted that and the next week I was in Redmond. On the interview day, I first met my interview coordinatior, who brings me to the first round of 1:1. I met 5 person in a role in one day, eaching taking about 1 hour. Two of them are from one team A, two from team B, and the last one was a manager who manages both team A and team B. The next week I got an email from the corrdinatior saying they declined my application. After that I wrote an email to the manger asking for a re-consideration, and the next day I got an email saying the first email they sent me was a mistake. Huuuu.... They gave me an offer and I happily accepted it.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      If you found your boss making a stupid decision on the data structure you are going to use in your code, what will you do? 1. Tell him that is wrong, you are going to use a better data structure. 2. Say yes, but in the end, code with the data structure you think is better. 3. Say yes and do the same, using the less effective data structure in your code.
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