Microsoft Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Software Development Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 4 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.
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An hour long telephonic interview followed by an on-site full loop with 5 interviews. One of the interviews was done by the recruiter primarily focused on past experience and testing. The rest of the interviews were technical with coding problems.
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You are provided with a rotating disk and and an unlimited supply of binary color sensors. One half of the disk is colored black and the other half is white. The problem is to determine the rotational direction of the disk.
Applied through university recruiter, passed on-campus interview, was flown out to Redmond main campus. They put me up in a hotel and then I had four interview back to back (literally, 45 min interview, 15 min break, next round) between 8am and noon on one day. If anything, the early start and fast pace tired me out. The questions themselves were straight-forward. Just remember to take your time, think of corner cases, and test.
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One about designing a regex matcher, I just tried to fly through it and forgot corner cases/got flustered by my interviewers less-than-warm demeanor.
the process begins by submitting the CV at a career fair and then applying on their website as well after which you get to hear back from the recruiter and are asked to interview on campus, the interview is a 1-1 interview with several questions, mix of professional fit and technical questions