Microsoft Sr. Software Engineer interview questions
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tallinn) in Mar 2020
Interview
There were three steps in the interview process. First I had and HR call and then I did an online test and got a full score. Finally, I had a four-sessions onsite interview which was held online.
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In the first session I solved a programming problem which was about data structures and algorithms with a manager from Microsoftç
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (New York, NY) in Sep 2020
Interview
First 1 hour screening interview on Microsoft Teams, with a programming question to solve in a text editor. Then 4 1 hour interviews with four members of the Hololens team, one of program design, 3 of technical programming question.
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How to approach finding words from a dictionary of valid words in a grid of letters. Some other average programming questions. No question that would really differentiate a good computer graduate from a more experimented programmer, it was very scholar.
The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Dec 2020
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4 rounds of interview process including Partner group manger. All were technical round and it was back to back. Recruiters were very helpful. This requirement was for Azure compute development team
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Given a snapshot of Chessboard, find out if king is under attack