So I interviewed at Microsoft bellevue campus a few days back. What surprised me was that the interviews were heavily (90%) towards behavioral. The decision is not out yet but I was wondering it that is a norm at microsoft? I have 13yoe with a few direct reports but I’m not a manager in my current role. One of the interviewer told me i’m being interviewed for principal sde. I was also asked whether i’d like to be IC or take manager route to which I said i’m looking to pivot to managerial role in coming years.
What confuses me is the heavy behavioral part. Is it possible they already had finalized another candidate so didn’t go too deep into technical stuff??
EDIT: i was a manager in my previous company....in case it had anything to do with that
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They also are probably taking your experience into account, it’s hard to gauge much in a few one hour interviews about coding ability in any situation, and extra hard to get much value out of that from someone with 13 years of experience. That said, we do typically have at least a couple coding interviews even for managers.
My guess is it’s a factor of the team you interviewed with and either the specific role or the interviewers they had available.