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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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft
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I applied from college and set me a 30 min on campus interview. It is a one to one person interview. Asked me to talk a database project. He gave me a pen and some scratch papers to tell the detail and asked me some basic SQL questions.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Allahabad) in Aug 2012
Interview
it was a campus hiring event. 2 written test and after that 4 technical interviews.
The Interviewer ware very cool guys and helped me during interview as well. they even give you hints if you stuck.
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Question 1
1. Data structure and Algorithmic questions.(mostly you find on GFG )
2. OS concepts, DBMS
3. no question on networking
4. few design questions
i) find the no. of connected components in a undirected graph.
ii) generate all valid parenthesis using n open and close braces
iii) Question on prime no. generation and processing.
iv) process in OS ( full details)
v) a design question on college student management system and few queries on them.
I applied through college or university. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Nov 2013
Interview
They went to our campus and asked us to write some code to reverse a string, then I had to go to a 1-1 interview at their office, after that I received an email telling me that I had to fly over to Puerto Vallarta to be interviewed, it was cool.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you test a function that receives two paths of files (strings) and copies the file specified in the first one to the second path.