Microsoft Internship, Software Developer interview questions
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Candidates applying for Internship, Software Developer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 31 days.
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I had a phone call with HR, asked questions about a project that I did, how I work in team, also I had to complete a coding test before the call, 3 easy questions, after that I had a technical interview
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Los Angeles, CA) in Oct 2019
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It was a quick 30 minute initial screen, so time was limited. But the interviewer did the best they could to assess my skills. I found the experience insightful and feel confident in moving on to the next round next time I apply.
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Initially asked me how I would delegate tasks to a server for fair load balancing. Then I had to implement said method as a c++ class (using templates).
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft
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The experience was very positive. First, you get 3 tasks in the Codility platform, which is very similar to the questions found in LeetCode (easy-medium). this part takes an hour. Second, I had a phone interview in English with behavioral questions. After 2 days I got invited to a second interview.
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codility- 3 tasks about strings, arrays and dictionaries