Microsoft Intern Software Developer interview questions
based on 209 ratings - Updated Jun 20, 2026
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Intern Software Developer 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 67.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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Phone interview: 33%
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One on one interview: 33%
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The interview was 45min long. The interviewer asked me to introduce myself and asked some behavoural questions. We then moved to the technical problem.
The question wasn't very difficult and I quickly coded the brute force solution, but I couldn't think of the optimal one and answer the follow up questions.
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Question 1
The technical problem was followed by questions like "What if your input was different?" or "What if your input number was the maximum integer allowed?"
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Mar 2020
Interview
Applied online for the internship, got an email in February about OA. Did the OA, and got called for an onsite interview that was converted to virtual and lasted 3 hours with different interviewers.
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Question 1
Having milions of points with coordinates (x,y), how would you find points that are at distance at most d from the point given X, Y for every query?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2019
Interview
First was by phone, then an onsite interview. The time gap between phone and the onsite was long, but I do not remember the time. I went onsite on November 2019.