Microsoft Software Development Engineer interview questions
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It was just the first interview and I do not have the result yet. I have applied for it because there were interviews on the university. Firstly I was asked to say something about me, then was the algoritmic question. I was asked only one question connected with algorithms or computer science.
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Question 1
You are given two linked (one direction) lists, as poiters, they meet somewhere and have common ending. Count nodes.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2013
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Dropped my resume at school career fair. They had some engineers on campus to interview students. Got an email a week later for on-campus interview. Two rounds of interviews, with two interviews in the second round. After that, they flew me to Seattle for the on-site interviews. I got two on-site with two different teams, the interviewers were the hiring managers so they were able to give hiring decisions in the same day. After the interviews, they took us for a campus tour then lunch and then they told us the result.
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Question 1
A board game was introduced, how to design an algorithm to come up with a valid starting point for the game
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2012
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In one of questions, I was asked how many lines of code I've done in a biggest single project. I never thought of that. I just made a guess, but it turned out way too wrong. So be prepared for this question.