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 71.6% 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.
Common stages of the interview process at Microsoft as a Software Engineer internship according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 40%
Phone interview: 20%
Skills test: 20%
Presentation: 20%
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First we started with the beahvioral section
Then we move on the technical section where my interviewer asked me to solve a problem
At the end we had time for me to ask some questions to my interviewer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an string, separate the continuous groups of numerical and non-numerical characters
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Oct 2020
Interview
HR interview in teams app about 30 min
after that homework 3 questions in 3 levels in 1 hour and 30 minutes.
the students that succeed the exam will get an 2 interviews with team leaders in the office and then HR interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
question about my personality
describe your project
Weaknesses and strengths
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Suzhou, Jiangsu) in Mar 2021
Interview
2 rounds of coding interview.
The 1st round contains 1 leetcode medium 1 leetcode hard.
The 2nd round contains 1 leetcode medium. I spent 20 minutes to come up with the solution and write the code. Then we spent 10 minutes on testing and finding the bug in my code caused by some edge cases.
Besides, we talked about past experience and internship.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The 1st round contains 1 leetcode medium 1 leetcode hard.
The 2nd round contains 1 leetcode medium.