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 in Oct 2011
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The first place i met them was in a campus fair. Later i got a call for a one to one interview. The interviewer asked me about my current work. After few minutes we got into the technical part where we started working on the sorting problem. After around 35-40 minutes i left and i was told that it will take 3 weeks to hear from them about the next round of interview that will be more elaborate and it will probably take place definetly not in the campus. I am still waiting to hear from them.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2011
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Microsoft came to a career fair hosted by the University of Toronto. I spoke with one of the representatives there and gave him my resume. I also applied online on Microsoft's job portal. After a few weeks, I was contacted by a recruiter and asked to fill out a candidate interest form. Then, all I had to do was set an interview time and show up.
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Question 1
Given a circular singly linked list of integers, write a function to remove all the duplicate integers and sort it so that when the contents of the circular list get printed, all even numbers get printed first.