Microsoft Software Engineer(Internship) interview questions
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One online round and three technical interview rounds. Online round had two basic DSA questions and similarly for the three technical interviews. I was asked some questions on binary trees and linked lists in the interview rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Print left view of a binary tree.
Merge two sorted linked lists.
Given preorder and inorder traversal construct a binary tree.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Nov 2019
Interview
I had an expedited interview process because I did another affiliated Microsoft program the summer before. The interview process consisted of only 2 interviews, a behavioral and a "technical" part. Overall the interviews were very quick, and I was there for only half a day.
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Question 1
The interviewer wrote down a method and asked me what was wrong with the code. The method tested my knowledge of asynchronous processes and promises.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Dublin, Dublin) in Apr 2021
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Relatively straightforward interview with basic questions about employment and a coding question. Coding question was in Java and covered very basic coding questions like String manipulation and sorting. No data structures covered