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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The were two rounds. The first was a phone interview with a somewhat basic question involving strings. The second was with the office I'd work for which had two questions.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Microsoft in Aug 2020
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The total process consisted of 4 rounds where the first one was a coding test which consisted of 3 easy-medium questions .
And post this round result, there were 3 rounds conducted of which 2 were technical and 1 hr round..
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The questions were about project and data strcutures