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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As a software developer, you are expected to be well-versed in data structures and algorithms as well as systems design. You can plan your tech interview prep around the following topics:
Arrays
Sorting Algorithms
Trees and Graphs
Recursion
Strings
Graph Algorithms
Bit manipulation
Dynamic Programming
Hash Tables and Queues
Linked Lists
Product Design
Systems Design
1 . test two questions
2 . Three technical interviews
all dsa string sliding window
Two people in my panel
All interviews in one day
Data structures stack and list
Each interview of one hour each
CV screening, then test or a screening interview, then 3 interviews on the same day, 1 hour each.
All interviews touch briefly on your experience and ask problem solving questions, you either share screen of your own pc or they give you a link for an interactive text editor
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Question 1
All problem solving questions can be found on Leetcode