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 very good.Questions were from easy to moderate level.practice Os,DBMS questions.Data structure and algorithms and object oriented programming.stack,queues, graph , strings and Collections . Then you can get shortlisted
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.