Microsoft Software Engineer internship interview questions
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The first round includes - Codility test- and skype interview. Codility test included 3 q's in different levels about data structers, algorithms etc. Skype interview was around 30 minutes and included q's about courses you've taken and other personal q's.
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Question 1
You have 9 apples. All of them are Identical in the way they look and feel. One is a little heavier than the rest, you don’t know which one, because they all look the same. You have a balance scale which you can use only twice. How can you find the heaviest apple?
I was a previous summer intern, so the process was more focused on finding a team I wanted to work with. HR got me to chat with a few different teams at Bing.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Taipé) in Mar 2019
Interview
1. a group interview consisting of self introduction, basic knowledge of computer science (e.g., data structure, algorithm complexity, operation system), and English
2. two rounds of online coding tests whose difficulty is close to medium and hard problems in Leetcode
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Question 1
complexity of binary search tree, explanation of deadlock