Microsoft·Software Engineer

Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

Hard

Negative

Posted Apr 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a really bad technical interview experience with a Microsoft interviewer who came across as rude and dismissive.

Instead of letting me fully respond, the interviewer kept talking and basically wouldn’t allow me to complete my answers, and the conversation drifted heavily into operating systems concepts that weren’t what I was trying to address.

The main feeling I remember was that I couldn’t get a fair shot to explain my reasoning. Even if I might have been able to handle the technical area on a normal day, the lack of room to respond made the whole call frustrating and discouraging.

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