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.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 1 day to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 46 days.
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called for interview at college... asked questions about my work experience and projects in resume.
only one tech question to union two unsorted arrays. the interview was for 30 minutes and was asked HR questions mostly. Yet to hear from them
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
got an email from recruiter, spoke to recruiter at career fair, had an interview on campus, had four back to back interviews on campus of Microsoft during the afternoon, heard back within a week
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2014
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Applied through on campus career fair
Had an on campus interview 2~3 weeks after the career fair
Heard back from recruiter in less than a week about the onsite interview
Scheduled onsite interview at 3 weeks later
Onsite interview consisted of 4 back to back interviews including 2 hour lunch interview
Interviewers were really nice people and felt like being cared a lot
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Questions were mostly about manipulating data structures.
Was largely asked about handling edge cases, and test plans