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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The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderābād) in Jun 2011
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The company's interview procedure and schedule are very good. Make sure that you are able to write proper algorithms (bug free) and it covers all the scenarios and negative conditions. That adds more positive points on the candidate's side
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Apr 2011
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Got contacted by MSFT and was first given a skills test to complete. It consisted of fairly easy CS questions. After that was the phone interview. I was expecting a lot of programming questions but surprisingly there were none. I was asked a couple qs about my experience, and of course Why MSFT, and after that a couple extremely general problem solving questions.
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You're developing a very basic calculator. How would you test it? What if it was aimed at children?
You work in the MSFT library and Bill Gates calls saying he wants to pick up a book. You check the catalog and confirm it's in stock. You tell Lord Gates that you will have the book ready for His Highness in 10 minutes. You go to where the book is on the shelf and find it's not there. What do you do?