Microsoft Software Developer - Internship interview questions
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30 min phone call with former alumni. asked me questions about resume and interests. had a short coding question and then he told me to ask him questions. it was under 30 minutes and really casua
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (New York, NY) in Sep 2019
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I got an email on handshake asking me to schedule an on-campus interview since Microsoft was coming to our college campus. I had applied to Microsoft a month earlier.
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The interviewer asked about the most interesting project I did on my resume. Then he went to technical questions. Technical question: Which one is faster/efficient: Java or Python? Why? Algorithm question: Sort a Big file whose data can't be loaded into memory all at once.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Urbana, IL) in Sep 2019
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Got asked a few behavioral questions and was asked to discuss my projects. I then had a technical question and the interview was over. The technical question was too easy in my opinion but other people I know got difficult file I/O.