Microsoft Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Japan, MO) in Jun 2014
Interview
1 : submit your resume .
2 : your resume is reviewed by recluiting personnel
3 : if you passed the reviewing process, you'll get a mail to notice about the interview .
4 : you'll examined about your programming skill
5 : if you have excellent programming skill, you can talk with engineer in microsoft
6 : talk what you want to do in intern
7 : enjoy
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Ciudad de Mexico) in Sep 2015
Interview
The interview was in a desk, I was on one side, the interviewer on the other side. They asked me questions to confirm the information they had, like graduation date, etc. Then questions about my projects, which did I liked the most and why. Then the programming question, it was a single one, in paper. When time was over
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Question 1
Given a linked list with numbers 4->4->5->5->5->5->-1->-1 return a list in the same order but with how many values of each one are in the list. For example, the output list for the example is: (4,2)->(5,4)->(-1,2)
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
Interview
One screening call, then flew out to Redmond for on site. The interview day comprised of 4 interviews in the afternoon after a large group lunch. Was asked a number of questions about code optimization, array manipulation, some SQL stuff, and then design patterns.