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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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2014
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on-campus interview. I tendered my resume at the career fair and had a good talk with the recruiter. They replied in about 2 weeks to invite me to on-campus interview. The interviewer only gives you 30min to crack a not-so-easy coding question that has many corner cases and pitfalls. Product design question was also asked.
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parse a string of arithmetic expression that could contain all sort of garbage. Many edge cases to consider. Follow up is a phone feature design question.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft
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It was an interview on my university campus. The interviewer just asked one question, given a sentence, reverse the order of the words in the sentence. Looking back it was a pretty simple question and he was prepared to ask a couple more questions after, but at the time I was unprepared, so I stumbled a bit and only got through the one.
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Given a sentence, reverse the order of the words in the sentence.
I was first asked C# questions like private and static constructors, ref/out, anonymous delegate etc. Then the algorithm question below. It is good to know your resume projects well, C# concepts and algorithms - this covers about everything for developer interview
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Find the next node in a binary tree from any node (implying successor to a node)