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      Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) Interview

      18 Aug 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2014

      Interview

      I applied at an in person hiring event at the University of Central Florida. About a 3 weeks later I received an email saying that I was chosen to follow up with the first round of the interviews which took place at my campus. The recruiting staff traveled back to my school interview all the candidates. A month later I received another email saying I moved on to the second round of interviews which took place at their main campus in Seattle, WA. They paid for all my travel and living expenses for the 3 day trip. I was allowed to the choose the arriving and departing dates from several options they gave me. Once I arrived to Seattle they gave me a day to explore the city on my own and the other day was used almost entirely for interviews (although they do let you out around 4pm to do more exploring). I went through three interviews with different employees from the Microsoft Office team which each lasted about an hour long. They all seemed to press firmly on the matter of testing code. Questions like: "How would you test this code?", "Did you ever run any tests to make sure it worked?", "How do you know this code works?". Not all the interviews started out that way, but they did end like that.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Given a regular phone number dial pad, write code that will list out all the possible letter combinations that can be made given three numerical digits as input. For example, the base function would look like this: function numberToChars(int *numbers) { // would return an array of different character combinations // if input was 123 // output: adg, adh, adi, bdg, etc... }
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      How would you test a function this function and make sure it works? The function would take in two file paths as parameters and then copy the contents of the first file path into the second one?
      Answer question

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