Microsoft Software Engineer - Intern interview questions
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They mostly asked me to solve whiteboard coding about standard algorithm problems. They wanted to me explain edge cases and potential drawbacks to solutions. No real code was necessary, just pseudo-code. Finished up with a detailed conversation about my background.
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Give brute force, divide and conquer, dynamic programming solutions to the Longest Palindromic Subsequence problem, and discuss space/time tradeoffs.
The first stage of the process was to do a codility test and then an interview in skype with the HR recruiter. The interview was in English. The codility test was 3 questions one easy and two difficult , and the time frame was 80 minutes.
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In the interview was some personal questions and some logical questions, like- describe a recursion to a child.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv) in Mar 2021
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before hr interview - codility test with 3 questions
1 - easy 2 - difficult.
HR + 2 technical interviews.
HR - With someone from US/CANADA
she were very nice, there is nothing to be worried about, come prepared with some good answares.
technical - from israel