Microsoft Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Herzliya) in May 2015
Interview
He Briefly described the position for me, What are they doing ? which technology they work with etc.
Then he asked me to talk about my self a little, and describe a project I worked on, and asked me a couple questions on it. then the interview began.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Referral/School career fair, then phone screen, then an onsite. You're either applying for a software engineering role or a program manager (PM, pretty much product managing) role, though often times they don't really take your preferences into account. The onsite consists of 3 - 5 interviews (it oddly varied depending on the person, not sure why that is).
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Question 1
A recruiter read off a list of questions from a sheet of paper and recorded them down.
Questions were things like:
- Tell me a time when you worked on a team, what role did you play
- Tell me a time when you faced a technical difficulty
- How many lines of code was your biggest project
- Tell me about a project you've worked on
- Do you like problem solving?
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2015
Interview
On campus interview. First some discuss about my background and then went straight to the white board coding part. It was not very difficult but he asked me for other way to solve it after I gave one solution. Then went back to question about how you solve a conflict before.