Microsoft Software Developer Internship interview questions
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Software Developer 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 Developer 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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It was a nice experience for me. Got to know where I am.
Microsoft focuses more on core skills like DSA, OOPS etc,
Maximum questions were from BST and Graphs. You must focus on core skills more than anything, Projects matter but not as much as your core skills.
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Question 1
write a program to print the top view of a binary tree.
You are given a link and 3 leetcode questions to answer.
Then you do an HR interview with quite basic robotic questions. I got cut at that stage, but they were all pretty basic and one puzzle.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Split a 40kg stone into 4 pieces so you can make up all the integers from 0 to 40 using the pieces or combinations.
Three interviews of 45 minutes, 15 minutes break after every interview. Interviewers are pleasant and help you to relax. In each interview firstly they talk with you about your CV, hobbies and some things about you and then they give you task.