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WHERE WILL YOU BE IN 5 YEARS!?

How I ACED MICROSOFT Interview
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Timeline
0:00 Highlight
0:24 Intro
1:18 Overview of Interview Process
2:25 Microsoft
3:29 Interview
4:58 Big Question
6:24 My Answer
9:40 Post-Interview
10:56 Closing

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Welcome to Pirate King. I'm a Software Engineer at Microsoft, ex-Software Engineer at Amazon and ebay. Apart from my full-time job, I also provide consultation and career mentoring to prospective Software Engineers. Here, we talk about tips and tricks on how to land a successful career in tech. If you are interested, make sure to hit that subscribe button!

Microsoft Onsite Final Interview @ Microsoft Headquarters
Final Round with the Hiring Manager
Behavioral Question
Open-Ended Question
Resume
Microsoft Offer
Maximum Total Compensation
How to Ace Interview

Where will you be in 5 years?

Filmed with iPhone SE 2
Music by Yeri

PIRATE KING
Software Engineer + Career Mentor in Tech

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[Momosun]

Your answer wasn't mind blowing. However, your delivery in the moment and the fact that it was truly genuine made it Golden. Your sincerity was the Golden ticket.

[amanjothshaji]

Respect bro, despite achieving all this, and having such great outlook towards life, You're down to earth, no wonder God has kept best things in store for you! And as far the answer is concerned, its the best one this question will ever have! Love from India♥

[luisnicolasrivas]

Honestly Microsoft seems like they have the best work culture and mission out of all big tech companies. I can't wait for my final rounds with them in a week!

[jessechen]

Impressed. Love the answer. I guess if one's answer to an interview question comes immediately, it's probably not a unique one.

[Invictus]

That is literally the best answer I have ever heard. I have always been strugling with this type of "Where do you see yourself in 5 years" questions.Your video give me the solution for this, thank you!

[leavesoflemons]

absolutely the best story I've heard out of all the other SE ytubers out there, thanks for enlightening us man!

[EnriqueMoranG]

Bro, I'm right now preparing for my interview and I asked my mom to help me answer that same question. She answered really similar to you and when she did it made totally sense for me. I wish you the best in the following 5, 10, 80 years of your life! You're an awesome person

[damonaniton]

My interview process was a little weird. 4 rounds. Interviewing for a job I was already working as a contractor. 1 technical interview with a coworker. He laughed and said he didnt have any questions because I already know you can do everything we need. 2 more cross functional personality and cultural fit interviews with individuals from different, non technical, business orgs. And a final conversation with a VP. She pressed me on what were the flaws of my current org and what I would do to fix them.

[avgerageCSStudent]

We might have the same final boss. I was asked the same questions "Where will you be in 5 year?" but I went blank. At the end I reversed the table and asked the boss "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" ....

The overall 4-round interview experience in Redmond was fun and I have learned and grown a lot from it.

[alexmak]

I feel you so much.

I'm a new grad and landed on my first job in Tokyo as an international student, but I feel that there is so much to experience in life, that I shouldn't be limiting myself to whatever I know now.
I will surely know so much more and make decisions base on my widened perspective down the years.

[mr.fabulous]

I am about to start my master of IT. this is not only a golden answer for interview, but also a life code or even life hack. man, u r just so inspiring!

[titojuice]

That honestly was golden! It had me thinking deeply of where I’ll be in the next 5 years..

[joshua_dlima]

Just reminds me of the famous Steve Jobs quote "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."

Awesome answer though, also would you by any chance consider posting educational content {core subjects, languages, interview questions etc} on this channel? i'd love to learn from you

[KotierWolf]

I think the answer you gave was very good and professional. I loved it. However, I feel the overall interview questions and answers will always be suggestive based on the company and the person interviewing you. I remember getting a similar reaction to from an interviewer answering to the "Why should we hire you?" question. The answer I gave them they said they never heard before. I skipped the follow up interviews they had planned for the others and started within two weeks. I used the same answer to a question somewhere else and they didn't like it too much. Probably a huge contributor to why I never heard from them again.

Regardless I loved this video and it was very informative/motivating. First time watcher and subscriber as of today!

[derricktorsu]

that answer is actually one of the best answers i have ever heard, i actually paused the video and thought about an answer to give too and i was stuck, thanks man. Keep doing what you're doing!

[neo-mashiro]

That answer didn't just "click in" for no reason. I had come up with that exact same answer during my interview last week. I was also unprepared for the question but, I have been jumping from industry to industry, company to company, moving from the US to Japan to China then finally to Canada, so I immediately realized why I made every single decision. This is absolutely a great answer, but we also need real life stories to back it up, stories that indeed show the drive that controls us to move forward, stories that really speak for themselves.

[nicecailieineza]

Pirate King, THANK YOU🙂. Now, I feel good, cause I had similar answer for some interviews. Like I am like : I don't know exactly where I will be in five years, life is full of a surprise I do not even know if I will make it next week; however if I get a chance to reach the next 5 years from now, I know I would be the better version of myself, with new set of skills.

[tosin]

Your answer was eloquently said. Beautiful.

[human]

You are so positive. I love it. You deserve everything you get.

[PrabeshPlayzSoulTheif]

I just started programming classes and I'm not sure if this makes me more or less nervous for the future. But thanks for sharing in-depthly, makes it feel very relatable and achievable.