Microsoft Software Engineer (internship) interview questions
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The inital interview is a phone call lasted for like 30 minutes. The man confirmed my information and go ahead to ask for some behavorial questions. There are 6 questions in total. None of them are related to technical side.
Met a recruiter at an on campus event, had an on campus interview. Passed that and flew to Seattle for the final round. Had two interviews with managers from the organization they wanted me to join.
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The technical questions were pretty basic algorithmic, didn't ask a lot about experience.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Lagos) in Jan 2021
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Normal for a university recruiting. They asked about Data structures and algorithms mostly. Three stages. Chat with an interviewer. They also asked about past projects. the interview was Remote interview