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 at career fair and scheduled an on campus interview. Asked questions about my interests and talked about the company and culture. Then there was one coding question. Overall, I was disappointed with the process because I felt that the interviewer did not positively portray the company or the position.
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Write an algorithm to find minimum # of coins for a given amount of change.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft in Nov 2013
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I applied through their graduate recruiting website and got an email the next day inviting me for an interview. I was called punctually at the time I chose. The interview started with a very slow pace, but we had to hurry up after some time because there were to many questions to be asked.
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You have 9 marbles. They all have the the same weight except one of them, which weighs slightly more than the others. You are given a balance scale. By using the scale only two times, detect the heavier marble.
I was selected for on-campus interview. The interview was 30 mins, mostly behavioral and one technical ques (very simple) on DNS servers. <<waiting for the next round>>
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