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.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 1 day to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 46 days.
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft
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My resume got selected at our campus career fair and was scheduled for a one on one interview in the campus. The interviewer was very friendly and helpful and asked general questions about my projects , experience with my courses, what part of software development i would like to work on and so on. After that he asked me a coding question with some test cases.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Phoenix, AZ) in Oct 2012
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The first interview is 30 minutes long. The first half is behavioral questions while the second half is about coding. It was a very simple interview. If you do well, then in 2 days there would be a second interview that is about 2 hours long. In the email it said that you only needed to be comfortable, and could be dressed up casually.
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In one of your group projects, what was the most challenging problem?
I applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Stanford, CA) in Oct 2012
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Applied on camps and scheduled interview on campus as well. The interview went fine. It was a regular coding interview with a fairly straightforward question on arrays that I solved pretty efficiently. Not sure why they didn't call back for the next round. This seemed to happen to some others too.
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Question 1
You are given an array of integers 'A' and a number 'x'. Find the largest values in 'A' such that it is smaller than 'x'.