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.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
I interviewed at a hiring event at my university where several companies were present to interview students for internships / full time jobs.
I messed up the interview partly because I was very nervous and because my interviewer spoke quickly with a strong american accent, which made me ask him to repeat about 1/2 of his sentences...
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Behavioral questions :
Tell me one time where you disagreed with a co-worker; how did you handle the situation?
Tell me one time where you had to motivate someone in your team; what was your strategy?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Troy, NY) in Oct 2015
Interview
The guy that I interviewed with was very passionate about working for Microsoft and we went over a few technical questions for about 30 minutes before talking about what it is like to work at microsoft
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2015
Interview
They came to my university and asked me a few personal and technical questions. I received an email asking if I would like to interview and went the next week. I think they did this to all CS majors who had been to Microsoft events on campus in the past. I messed up the technical part of the interview but it wasn't too hard. They let you choose the language to do it in. I'd recommend Python because of all the built-in functions.
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Question 1
They gave me a string and asked me how to remove all instances of a certain letter from the string.