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title: "How to Pass A Microsoft Interview - SDE/T Edition"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/1/how-to-pass-a-microsoft-interview-sdet-edition.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/1/how-to-pass-a-microsoft-interview-sdet-edition.html"
published: "2003-05-01T09:11:00"
updated: "2003-05-01T09:11:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I was going through Chris Sell's Posts about Microsoft interviews and was amazed at the amount of interest these have generated. Quite frankly, I was intrigued as well. I do wonder what its like - being there. Those…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# How to Pass A Microsoft Interview - SDE/T Edition

By Roy Osherove May 1, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 1, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

I was going through [Chris Sell's Posts about Microsoft interviews](http://www.sellsbrothers.com/fun/msiview/) and was amazed at the amount of interest these have generated. Quite frankly, I was intrigued as well. I do wonder what its like - being there. Those posts provide a window to the world of 'how  its done with the big boys' in a sort of way. I wouldn't be surprised if a 'How **to pass A Microsoft interview**' Book were to be written in the near future. (I can even go as far as seeing editions - 'Passing MSFT Interview - QA Edition' or 'SDE/T Edition','Evangelist Edition'... you get the drift.

**Update:**

Perhaps [stories like this one](http://www.tashian.com/microsoft.html) are another reason these books are just a matter of time...

**Yet Another Update:**

**Well, I knew it!**. [Samer Ibrahim](http://dotnetweblogs.com/SIbrahim) pointed me in the direction of just the book I was speaking of - 

[How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle -- How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers
](http://www.twbookmark.com/books/36/0316919160/index.html)by [William Poundstone](http://www.twbookmark.com/authors/48/2721/index.html)

(Now I feel like I must have it!)

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