Microsoft Software Engineer, Intern interview questions
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Two interviews back to back, 1 hour each. First one asked a LC type question, second one asked more coding basics questions (didn't ask to run the code, just talk through the pseudocode), both had behavioral components (but mostly technical)
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Q: Give an introduction please (at the beginning of the interview)
The interview was done in one day, three 45-minute sessions one after another: 15 minutes in the begining reserved for behavioral questions and the rest focused on LeetCode medium coding problems
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Belgrade) in Apr 2024
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A Codility test of varying difficulty, followed by one interview round consisting of three back-to-back technical sessions. Each session begins with a 10-minute discussion about the resume, followed by a problem-solving segment featuring LeetCode medium-level problems.
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Q: How would you store and later use an extremely large data structure that cannot fit into memory?