Microsoft Software Developer - Internship interview questions
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Software Developer - Internship applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer - Internship roles take an average of 90 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 46 days.
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The questions were normal but one of the three interviewer didn't handle my nervousness very well since this was my first interview ever, so he came across a little bit condescending when telling me my inexperience was obvious and I should work harder even though I was only starting second year of college and an exceptional student.
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Besides Leetcode type questions, my previous projects and which team I would like to work in if I were to be accepted.
I applied online. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2022
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I had 4 rounds in interview for interning as Software Engineer. 1st one was coding, next project based, one pager and some activities, last live coding. I was asked logical and DSA question in C++
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Complexities improvement, optimization of problem, heap and hash maps
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bellevue, WA)
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There are about 3 to 4 rounds of interviewing in which some of them happened consecutively. One of the rounds for interviewing was approximately 3 hours. I had a technical interview, behavioral, and then another technical one.
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They asked about creating a sorting algorithm in Python.