Microsoft Internship, Software Developer interview questions
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Internship, Software Developer 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.
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I was reached out by a recruiter to schedule a first round interview. After this interview I was told that they will let me know if I'm selected for final round interviews after a few weeks. The final round consisted of 3 back to back interviews in one day. After that, I waited a few days until I heard back.
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Asked about my past projects, internships, basic OOP concepts, DSA questions, leetcode easy/medium
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Dublin, Dublin) in Dec 2021
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first interview they ask you basic software knowledge questions before moving into a problem solving question(non coding) and in the final interview you have to talk to the team (individually) with 1-3 mins break in between and each ask you a coding question
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for the problem solving question you were asked how you would split a rock with an unknown weight into 3 equal parts
It was very good.Questions were from easy to moderate level.practice Os,DBMS questions.Data structure and algorithms and object oriented programming.stack,queues, graph , strings and Collections . Then you can get shortlisted