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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Did online coding test to get past to the first interview. Got through to the interview - got asked questions about previous experience, explain programming concept to a child, design question. Said they would hear back in a week, but had to send a reminder e-mail and got rejection e-mail approx 3 weeks afterwards.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Boise, ID) in Sep 2019
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Interviewer came to campus. Very pleasant experience, I was coached on how might I improve my implementation and was guided to a very interesting solution which I learned a lot from.
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My interests for work, Microsoft has a lot of jobs with different topics.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2020
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Straightforward and largely dependant on the Interviewer. The Coding round was easy enough, The first round interviewer was cheerful and supportive, But the next interviewer took 6 hours to show up, was cranky and did not indicate the correctness of the solution,