Microsoft Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Had the chance to do a phone interview with MS in my 2nd year. there were not many tech question as i was expected. instead, the interviewer asked quite a lot about my tech related background and some general knowledge about programming.
Worked with company as intern before interviewing - knew most of my interviewers. Very short describe your resume/where do you see yourself in 5 years, then straight to a whiteboard where I had to answer questions in front of senior software engineers
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Question 1
given a function called drawpoint(x,y) write a function to draw a circle.
a few questions on what resolves to true and what resolves to false. will 0.5 resolve to true? if you use -0.75 in an comparison statement (if -0.75) what will be returned from that statement. etc... what else can be used as true, what can be used as false.