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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Only had 1 stage until now, interview through zoom. mostly behavioural questions. very nice interviewer.
I am waiting for stage two and then i can share the whole experience. overall the process takes some time but it is woth it.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Lincoln, NE) in Oct 2018
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I met one-on-one with a recruiter who asked me some questions about my background. Then we moved onto technical questions where I was asked to write code on a white board to solve a problem given to me.
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Question 1
How would you count the number of bits that need to be shifted to get from one integer to another in C?
one phone round and two virtual onsite rounds, both with coding questions on leetcode. The questions are not hard, but they require a lot of thinking and talking. They also ask about projects that I have been working on.
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Question 1
Coding questions (easy/medium leetcode); one for each round