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.
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Online assessment and recruiter screen-> 2 sixty minute Technical Interviews back to back -> Final ninety minute interview with manager. Overall took about a month with a week between each stage.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Sep 2022
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Interviewer opened up by asking questions from my resume and behavioral questions. We then moved forward to a coding round about finding if a substring exists in another string. They than followed up by asking the time complexity of the problem. The interview was concluded by asking system design questions regarding developing a messenger application.
Didn't like it. Very stiff, didn't get a sense of the culture at all. But they make some really cool stuff. I liked the other intern I met. And the snacks were great.
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What my background was. They cared a lot about my schooling