Microsoft Software Engineer Internship interview questions
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Software Engineer Internship applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3 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 Engineer Internship roles take an average of 90 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 46 days.
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It was online.First personal interests other than coding.Then direct jump to 2 coding questions.one question is to k reverse string and other question is tricky one. Then project related questions were asked.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft
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There were 3 interview. First two were based on DSA alone, 3rd was more about Resume and HR. I thew first interview they asked a binary search based question of medium diffculty. In the second they asked a tree traversal based question and in the 3rd they asked from resume.
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There were 3 interview. First two were based on DSA alone, 3rd was more about Resume and HR. I thew first interview they asked a binary search based question of medium diffculty. In the second they asked a tree traversal based question and in the 3rd they asked from resume.
I was reached out by a recruiter to schedule a first round interview. After this interview I was told that they will let me know if I'm selected for final round interviews after a few weeks. The final round consisted of 3 back to back interviews in one day. After that, I waited a few days until I heard back.
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Asked about my past projects, internships, basic OOP concepts, DSA questions, leetcode easy/medium