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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No coding challenge. Had to do two technical questions back to back, one on binary trees and how to create and check for balance, and another on reversing a sentence string. the second was straight from leetcode
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Nova Deli) in Aug 2017
Interview
It was a multi-round process.
Following were the rounds:
1. A written MCQ test on a platform, had some reasoning questions and some basic input-output questions
2. Coding round, a limited time coding contest, where we were supposed to solve questions and submit on an online judge. There were two problems and the overall time given to solve both of them was 30 mins.
3. Interview round 1, I was mostly asked about my profile and why I wanted to join Microsoft. One of my projects was also discussed. Then there was a coding question.
4. Interview round 2, I was asked a coding question. However, I just wrote some pseudo-code and the interviewer was happy with that.
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Question 1
One of the questions was about in place string compression. For example, given a string (or an array of characters) like 'abaabbbccc', how to compress it to a string 'a1b1a2b3c3' where the number written after the character indicates how many times the character occurred. Only a constant amount of extra space is allowed, the contents of the original array/string can be overwritten.
A recruiter reached out to me and I got scheduled for a technical interview. The interview was done online using codility and I was asked to solve a coding question. The interviewer was very kind during the interview.