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 an employee referral. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2012
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Because of the NDA, I can say nothing but the process itself. I finished my interviews in the offices of MS.China before the campus hiring started. I took only 2 rounds and didn't make it to the 3rd(the last) round. I met a Indian in the 1st round and he asked me many open problems. But I failed to express myself well and was declined...
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Nova Deli) in Mar 2008
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I was called for face-to-face round after telephonic screening round. The interview was based on logical questions and C language constructs. Questions ranged from set theory, venn diagram, recursive functions in C, for loop syntax and logic inversion. Good focus on data structures and algorithms.
It was very interesting interview. Overall I enjoyed the experience.
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I faced a simple but interesting question. In a for loop condition statement, how can u invert the logic by changing a single character.