Microsoft Software Engineer, Intern interview questions
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Software Engineer, Intern 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.
Common stages of the interview process at Microsoft as a Software Engineer, Intern according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
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One on one interview: 33%
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The interview process began with an initial HR interview to introduce the company, its culture, and expectations. Following this, two technical interviews were conducted. The first technical interview focused on hands-on implementation skills, requiring the candidate to solve coding challenges and demonstrate programming abilities. The second technical interview delved into designing solutions, where the candidate was asked to conceptualize a in high level an algorithm and express the solution using pseudocode.
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Question 1
Given a binary tree, return the sum of all elements of the tree.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft in Mar 2023
Interview
There was one phone screen. Then two interviews: one was technical, one was behavioral. Both interviewers were strangely hostile and acted completely uninterested throughout my response. It seemed like my application had been discounted ahead of time, and they were going through the motions with no intention of hiring me. However, it was overall very quick, so not a waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Three ants start at the corners of a triangle. They pick a 50/50 direction, what's the chance that an ant collides with another.
The interview process is extremely challenging when I first get interview by phone call. The interviewers question you like "how do you use your critical thinking skill to solve this programming questions". They really look into what's your skillset have.