Microsoft Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Nov 2012
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I dropped my resume in a college job fair, then got contacted for an on-campus interview. Typical HR questions followed by an easy coding question. After that I went to Redmond for full-day on site interview. 4 interviews of 1 hour in length and 1 lunch interview. It was a typical day as explained in other reviews, nothing special. All interviews started with some chat, followed by multiple technical coding questions. No advanced questions at all, I solved all problems using either a hash table or a linked list, nothing fancy. I thought I did well, no offer was a surprise.
Other than that, everything went perfectly smooth, I was well informed during the whole process, got the results in a few days.
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Question 1
Given a string of format '2+3*2-1', calculate and return the result. No parenthesis in the input, just integers and + - * / operators. Operator precedence has to be considered. Linear time complexity and minimal data structure use is preferred.