Interviewing at Microsoft
In the Building 19 lobby on the Microsoft Redmond Campus, one of the candidates sitting at the table decided she was going to break the silence by having each of us go around and talk about ourselves and the school we went to. As the introductions went around, the names of the schools I heard were MIT, Notre Dame, UCLA, and so forth. I was really nervous hearing the names of these schools, as I had never met anyone who had ever attended these schools before. But I was determined to keep my game face and my focus.
My Software Design Engineer in Testing (SDET) interview started with the Microsoft Exchange team that morning. I had no prior software testing experience, beyond writing the occasional test plan as required in ...
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