Microsoft Sr Software Engineer interview questions
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft in May 2022
Interview
Step 1. Recruiter contacted and had a 30 mins call to understand the Job profile and what you looking forward.
Step 2. Asked me to update my resume in Microsoft career website.
Step 3. The recruiter started sharing some openings which hiring managers(mostly Dev Managers) shortlist. Gave my available timeslots.
Step 4: The hiring manager will schedule a technical coding interview round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interviewer first question: "Why Microsoft" and then he shares a Codility link.
Question: Convert a number (1234) into words (One Two Three Four) in a most efficient way(no switch case), no string conversion etc.
Since I didn't practice much Algorithms, I struggled a bit, however the interviewer gave some tips. It was a 50 mins online test in 1 hr time slot.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tallinn) in May 2022
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter. Then the recruiter set me up with a virtual interview. The interview was conducted in 4 parts. Behavioral, coding, system design and code architecture. The first three interview I did was ok. The interviewers were friendly. However the final interview which was the coding interview was horrible. For some reason the interviewer was irritated by me since I couldn’t understand the question. The question wasn’t clear enough. Anyway I tried understand she was rude. I was actually thinking maybe the color of my skin irritated her.
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Question 1
Design a chat application. For the system design interview.
For the code architecture design a vending machine
And for the coding interview I didn’t understand so I don’t remember
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Praga) in Sep 2021
Interview
Four parts interview and offline coding tasks. After that I have two meeting with dev managers before final offer.
Overall the process was ver pleasant nad most interview turns into just talks
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Question 1
Discussion about internals of grabage collector and JIT compiler