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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Applied after a recruiter reached out to me. Completed codility test (2 technical problems in 75 mins) and then had this first interview. The interviewer was great. He taught me a lot.
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Question 1
What is multithreading? What is recursion? Describe a time you faced a challenge and how you resolved it. Talk about a big project you've worked on, how big it is, lines of code, current users, etc.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2022
Interview
i applied through a person who works there and therefore got a quick response. first round was online coding skills test. it consisted of 2 tasks and time limit of 75 minutes. first task: given a string you must split into a minimal number of substrings in such a way that no letter occurs more than once in each substring. second task : 2 frogs that want to jump away and u need to return the longest distance
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
was asked about certain courses what's the difference between array and list i was asked to explain the term "multi-threading"
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Londres, Inglaterra) in Sep 2022
Interview
2 rounds, with an OA first then phone round then one session of 3 interviews with 15 minutes gaps between them. The interviews were a mix of behavioural and technical