Microsoft Software Engineer - Internship interview questions
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Software Engineer - 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 Engineer - 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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CV screening, algorithm test with 4 tasks and then 3x 1 hour interviews with algorithm tasks. I solved all 3 (2 of them quite a bit before the time ran out), the 3rd one was kind of weird with the senior software engineer forcing me to continue with my bad solution even though i said i want to change my idea. Did not get accepted and didn't get any feedback about it which i didn't like at all.
on zoom and you get interviewed by two different people and it’s like the same interview twice and they ask about ur resume and then a microsoft related coding question and there is no terminal
3 interviews. Leet code questions. also need to explain about a project from university. Leet code questions are medium difficulty. One hard leet code question. overall good experience. practice leet code