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Mar 2, 2014

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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru)

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1st round: 50 questions. 25 questions basic C and C++. 25 questions maths. (data interpretation)' 2nd round: coding Q1. replace all spaces with $ in a sentence Q2. something related to binary tree Q3: linked list implement 3rd round: interview about database, permutation and combination of all the given alphabets and networks.

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Question 1

write a protocol (networks)

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Software Engineer I Interview

Mar 2, 2014

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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft

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School career fair. Gave them my resume. They emailed me for a 30 on-campus interview.

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Question 1

-Asked about my prev experience and projects I did, etc. (~5 mins) -Then the technical question: how do you reverse all the words in a string? i.e. 'the blue dog jumps' becomes 'jumps dog blue the'

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Software Developer Interview

Feb 24, 2014

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I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Saint Louis, MO) in Sep 2013

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I got a on campus interview. Failed in the 2nd round. Asked me some basic algorithm questions. Easy but need to figure out different solutions.

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Question 1

how to combine 2 sorted arrays together. Like 1357, 2468, the result should be 12345678

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