Faraz's Blog

Alright, I didn't have a very good feeling after the initial phone interview. So, I'd thought I didn't make it. The reason being, I was feeling that I didn't give correct and complete answers to all of the questions as I wrote in my other blog post regarding the first interview.  What was interesting though, was that the interviewer was never looking for the correct answer, because there wasn't one.  What he was looking for was to see my thinking process progress, and how do I respond at problems, which I believe, I did well in during the initial interview.  So, three days later I got an email from the Microsoft recruiter, stating "Congratulations, Microsoft wants you to fly out to Seattle for an in person interview". I was definitely excited seeing that email, because I hadn't been expecting it, but this definitely gave me an idea of how to prepare for the interview and what would be going through the minds of the interviewers at the Microsoft Headq...

To be released April 10, 2010.

I'd applied to Microsoft through our University's career services, which basically asks you to create a profile and fill out all necessary information at www.microsoft.com/careers. I received first correspondence from one of the recruiters through email about a month ago. I was asked to email back to him my updated resume, my schedule, an initial evaluation form which tries to kind of get to know about your interests, technologies you're interested in, your past experience and your desired positions at Microsoft Software Development Engineer/in Test and Program Manager. (SDE, SDET and PM). Once, you send these things back to the recruiter, he will schedule the first interview, usually conducted over phone (or on-campus which ever is feasible). The next email the recruiter sends you is with a bunch of resources like websites, blogs, suggested readings, books etc to prepare from. Since, it's the initial screening, I found that the interviewer basically tries to scan your ...