How I ACED MICROSOFT Interview | Software Engineer

I entered this room, there he is the final boss of the game, he literally passed out waving and dropping his head on the road. Time passed, strange sounds continued, the hiring manager began to get impatient. I had to say something and I started talking, blah, blah, blah. you know, boring standard, the first thing he said was that it's a great answer, the best I've ever heard, welcome to power king, I'm daniel,

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, ex-soft ranger at amazon and ebay, and also a

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. mentor at two education startups here we talk about tips and tricks on how to get a successful career in tech in this video i'm going to review my golden answer that wowed the hiring manager during my final

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because shortly after I delivered the final blow, the hiring manager asked when can you start the story doesn't end there. He liked me and my interview so much that he even instructed the recruiter to offer me maximum compensation for my To sum it up, I'm going to reveal my secret weapon that helped me not only get the job at Microsoft but also walk away with a package of maximum compensation, wondering what it is, stay until the end to find out. Let me start by giving it to you quickly. an overview of what the microsoft interview process looks like just like microsoft's typical big tech company job application process consists of four stages technical application phone screen onsite interview and offer i will not say a lot about the technical part of the interviews I mean, what can I say?

It's just Lee code. However, I will emphasize that I made it through each technical round without a hitch, something that is not always easy to do with a tech giant and something that surprised myself, but because I did so well in the coding rounds I was able to make bold moves during my final interview with the hiring manager and later even in my salary negotiation, I honestly don't think I would have been able to do it if the odds weren't in my favor, but you know how. Sometimes you feel like everything is just working in your favor, well, to my surprise, that lucky moment was none other than my interview with Microsoft.

One interesting thing about the Microsoft final interview is that it may consist of three or five rounds, most likely you will. Walk away without an offer if you complete only three and with an offer if you stay five, it means that if your first three interviews don't go very well, they may simply say goodbye without completing the remaining two, take this information with a grain of salt. Since this is not official and things might have changed now, but it is something I learned blindly, so when I was asked to stay two more hours after my third technical round, I knew instantly that things were in my favor, another interesting thing about Microsoft.

What I really love and is unmatched in any other workplace is that you can have your own private office no matter your level of experience, so walking into the building full of hundreds of private offices and entering a room one by one to each of my interviews was definitely an interesting experience, by the way, if you are interested in strategies on how to succeed in an interview, click here. In my final round, I walk into this room, the hiring manager's private office, where he greets me with a smile and shows me a chair, I said, I look up and there is the final boss of the game, if only I can beat this one Dude, passing the stage, are the only thoughts in my head.

I also noticed that he pulled up my resume on one of the three monitors on his desk, I could easily recognize it even from a distance because it was mine, so we started by breaking the ice, you know, the usual, then we talked a little about the previous technical rounds, how they were, what they were like, what was the most interesting question, etc. He then went on to ask me about my experience at Amazon. I was interested in hearing it because I started doing interviews for Microsoft when I had worked for Amazon for only eight months.

I won't tell you the nitty-gritty details of why I decided to do it. I left Amazon, but I told him Amazon is a great company, they gave me free Starbucks coffee a whopping hundred dollars to spend on amazon.com every year and of course free bananas. You know, I could go on and on and on about how amazing Amazon is. It's all day, but maybe later in a separate video, so I explained all my reasons why I decided to leave so early, why I think it makes sense to look for a new opportunity now and then it seemed like a gesture of understanding and he launched the great question.

Where will you be in five years? I remember repeating the question and ducking my head along the way. Where will I be in five years? I mean, what kind of question is it? I honestly didn't know what to say at that moment. I was literally. darkened, I mean, what would you say? Where would you be in five years? Where will you be in a year? Next month. Do you understand what I'm saying? I don't even know where I'd be in a month, but this guy. I wondered where I would be in five years. I think I stood with my head down for over 30 seconds in silence, racking my brain to come up with a good answer.

At the same time, I thought I was almost there and the only thing left was. Beating this final boss, I just need to get through this stage and get out, so my brain was jumping back and forth between this thought and the other time, the awkward sounds continued and I could see the hiring manager starting to get impatient. I have to say something. That's when I look up and remember that my resume is on the monitor behind them. I looked at my work history. My entire professional career as a software engineer. Where I worked. Studied. What did I do.

All the adventure of my life. It is at this moment. something just clicked and I started talking, you know, let's start not by looking forward but by looking back, the last five years, as you can see from my resume, I spent two years studying game development in Japan, another two working for eBay in Korea from the South at least. Over a year working for Amazon in the US. When I graduated from CMU, I thought game development was for me, so I flew straight to Tokyo, but I didn't even imagine I'd get my first full-time job in an electronic commerce. company eBay in South Korea, a few years later I found myself flying back to the United States to join Amazon in Seattle, another unexpected turn of events and, as just a few months after joining Amazon, here I am facing You, what Amazon could call an enemy of theirs, interview at the same headquarters as your competitor, why would that be?

Why am I jumping from one place to another or from one job to another, from one country to another? I don't have an exact answer, but the first thing I ask when I change jobs is how much can I learn and grow from here? So going back to your question of where I'll be in five years, I honestly have the slightest idea where I'll be or what I'll be doing, whether I'll be a manager, a senior engineer or something. That's completely random, but there is one thing I know for sure and that is that if there is a place where my future self five years later looks back and if that future self is able to say, boy, have I learned a lot?

Since then, man, have I become a better person? Since then, if there's a place I can say I'll be there, I don't know about you, but I could definitely see that the hiring manager really liked my answer. because the first thing he said was that it's a great answer, probably the best one I've ever heard in my life, then he started to explain why my answer was unique compared to others and said that it's his favorite question, the one he always asks people. candidates and most of them respond by saying something like: I will have become a highly respected manager, a senior engineer with deep engineering experience, a technical leader who leads by example, blah blah blah, you know, boring standard , then talked about how he usually expands on his answers, why would you? you have become a manager, why would you be a senior engineer?

What makes you say you will become a leader? The list can go on and on until the one hour interview time expires. However, to him my answer was definitely out of the bedroom and he didn't even find the follow-up question necessary, so he spent the remaining 30 minutes trying to waste time asking random questions because he hoped that question would be the last one. Well now he's not ready so I remember spending the last 10 minutes talking about how soon I can start and what it will be like to work at Microsoft and stuff like that anyway the time finally came and my interview was over he walked me out of the building and promised to get back to me within a day or two, another promising sign when it comes to interview results because companies intentionally wait a week to notify rejections out of courtesy, so my recruiter got back to me within two days .

It was a Friday afternoon. I remember it because I spent my weekend free and happy. He explained to me my scores for all my interviews. They are very tall, the hiring manager really liked me and after a few calls back and forth to negotiate my salary, he extended me an offer with the highest compensation package the company allows for my level, the rest is history, so Tell us my story, it might have seemed like I'm bragging again, but I can honestly say no, in fact, I have never revealed the story to anyone other than my family, but I decided to share it with you because I think it has value.

Where will they do it? Five years from now, at first I didn't really like the question, but now that I think about it, not only is it a great interview question, but it's also a great philosophical life question that we should all ask ourselves every day. where will you be? In five years, how will you answer it yourself? In my experience, one of the best ways to answer an open-ended question is to give an open-ended answer. Remember that I have the slightest idea of ​​where I will be in five years, but if there is one place that will help me be better, a better person, that is where I will always be, so what do you think about my answer?

Do you think it's really golden or not really or something like it's good but nothing like amazing or mental? blowing let me know in the comments below like if you like this video and subscribe if you want more videos like this. Next is how to effectively prepare for code. Thanks for watching, see you next time, bye.