Future Proof Your Technical Interviewing Process: Hiring or Not
This is the last in a 4-part series on how to interview well. Parts 1-3 covered the phone screen, the technical interview and the fit interviews. In...
Future Proof Your Technical Interviewing Process: The Fit Interviews
If you just found yourself here, you’ve stumbled onto a multi-part series on the technical interviewing process. Part 1 covered the phone screen and...
Future Proof Your Technical Interviewing Process: The Technical Interview
It’s incredibly important to interview well as you’re building your technical team. Further, interviewing well is hard to do and, like anything, you...
Future Proof Your Technical Interviewing Process: The Phone Screen
In 30 years, I’ve done a lot of interviewing from both sides of the table. Because of my chosen profession, my interviewing has been for technical...
Head of Google interviewing says “results matter, riddles don’t”
Google, like Microsoft, is famous for asking brain-teaser style questions during their interviews. However, in a June, 2013 interview with the New...
David Ramel Asks About Interviewing at Microsoft
David Ramel from 1105media.com is writing an article that includes the Microsoft interviewing process and he send me some questions: [David] How...
Ed Helms on Microsoft Recruiting
This spoof on Microsoft’s college recruiting practices was recorded long ago (back with the XBox was new), but it has recently surfaced again, so...
Wasting the Prince of Darkness
From “Pete” (not his real name): I walked into my first technical interview at Microsoft, and before I could say anything, the woman says, Youre...
Stumped
Tue, 9/6/05, 2:29 pm...
Scott Hanselman’s Great .NET Developer Questions
Scott Hanselman has posted a set of questions that he thinks “great” .NET developers should be able to answer in an interview. He even splits it...
Jason Olson’s Microsoft Interview Advice
Jason Olson recently interviewed for an SDE/T position (Software Development Engineer in Test) at Microsoft and although he didn’t get it, he...
Standing Out When Submitting Your Resume
After seeing all of those pictures in Wired of the wacky letters that people send, I love the idea of Michael Swanson opening the floodgates by...
Some of the MS Interview Process Filmed (Finally!)
Channel9 did what I was unable to ever get done: filmed some of the interview process (part 1, part 2 and part 3). It’s not an actual...
Questions for Testers
A friend of mine sent along some questions he was asked for a SDE/T position at Microsoft (Software Design Engineer in Test): “How would you...
What do job interviews really tell us?
For the New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell discusses various indicators of how well interviews actually work for screening job candidates (in a phrase:...
“Interviews are practically worthless for screening candidates.”
Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent, discusses his thoughts on interviewing, include: “In an interview you can tell if a person is a...
HR Bloggers
I’ve heard for years that MS HR uses my site as part of their internal HR training, although I’ve never heard it from the HR folks themselves....
Interviewing for MS Interns
Shawn Morrissey (my boss) posted some questions he asked at UPenn’s Wharton School of Business: Explain a database to a young child. Explain the...
Interviewing at Lego
Sat 1/10/2004 10:12 am Jamie, a contender for a Master Builder spot at Lego, describes a very different interview process than you’re likely to get...
Robert Scoble on Interviewing at Microsoft
Robert Scoble (the Scobleizer) sent along his answer to a common question: What is it like to interview at Microsoft? About dress code while...
Microsoft Plays Hiring Hardball
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How Would You Move Mount Fuji?
Thu, May 29, 2003 If you’re interested in a book about the high-tech interview process, including lots of info about MS specifically (and some...
My Dad’s All Set to Work At Microsoft
Tue, Apr 22, 2003 My Dad, a long-time draftsman in a civil engineering firm in Fargo, ND, had this to say about manhole covers: “It’s like this....
The Human Side of Microsoft
For more than a year, I’ve had a request to video tape an interview at Microsoft up on this page. The goal was to show the human side of Microsoft...
If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft
Interviewer: Now comes the part of the interview where we ask a question to test your creative thinking ability. Don’t think too hard about it, just...
Interview Synopsis
From Fred (not his real name): So the interview was rough, as to be expected. Here is a synopsis:10:15-10:45 - Met with my recruiter. Discussed...
My Interview At Microsoft
an interesting two days interviewing at Microsoft...
My Interview
Fri, Apr 18, 2003 After never thinking that I would, I had two days of interviews at Microsoft in the middle of March, 2003. The first day was with...
How to Interview a Programmer
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Feeding the Engine
Adam Barr, 4/4/2002 On October 26, 1999, it was announced that Microsoft would be one of the four new components in the 30 stocks that make up the...
Tough Interview
Chris Sells, 2/19/2002 I woke up this morning with a splitting headache. Just before I woke, I was dreaming that I was interviewing at Microsoft....
More Reaction from Microsoft
2/18/2002I’ve heard from several of my friends at Microsoft (and yes, I do have some…), that Microsoft is not such a terrible place to work, but...
Smart is Not Enough
2/18/2002Here’s a recent Fortune magazine article about the MS interview process and the culture. Scary…...
Reaction from Microsoft
2/18/2002 Here’s a quote from an anonymous source: “I was given your page address from a friend who happens to work at Microsoft and does...
Contacting Microsoft
2/17/2002If you’d like to beg Bill directly for a job, his email is billg@microsoft.com. If you’d actually like an answer some day, send your...
Microsoft Interview Questions
2/16/2002 The questions tend to follow some basic themes: Riddles Algorithms...
I Don’t Provide The Answers
I’ve have several people ask for the right answers the these questions but I just can’t bring myself to publish them. It seems just too...