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.
Common stages of the interview process at Microsoft as a Software Engineer - Internship according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 40%
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Presentation: 20%
Phone interview: 20%
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The first round was a phone interview where the recruiter asked a mix of behavioral and technical questions. The second round was live coding challenges that lasted a couple of hours.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time where there was conflict in a group you were in.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Mar 2019
Interview
First round was online on codility, you're given 4 tasks and 3 hours to solve them.
After that,secound round consists of 3 interviews, each 45min long. On each of them you will be speaking with engineers from different teams.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Clone the single linked list with one additional random pointer in each node.
Find diameter of a tree.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Mar 2020
Interview
First, I had 1 Skype interview, afterwards there were 2 technical interviews (sometimes a third interview is added).
No HR interview before nor after the tech interviews.
The Skype interview was from a central HR division based in Warsaw
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How can you build a data structure able to return all previously entered permutations of a given word