Microsoft Software Engineer - Internship interview questions
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Starts with an Online Assessment on hackerrank. Then final round in 2 interviews 45 mins each with 15 min break in middle. Both are a mix of behavioral and technical interviews. Also questions about projects or experiences on your resume
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Zigzag traversal of tree
2. Variant of Paths in Binary tree
3. Questions to see how you react to criticism ex. from an assignment from your teacher
4. What do you think about using AI
5. Describe Projects picked by interviewer on your resume
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Lucknow) in Jan 2026
Interview
The OA was simple. There were two interview rounds. The interview focused on problem solving, logical puzzles, and some system design concepts like caching and database optimization.The HR round had one dsa , one behavourial and one os based question. The interviewers were friendly and the difficulty level was moderate.
Interview questions [6]
Question 1
1. Find pairs with minimum absolute difference in an array (Closest latency spikes).
HR ROUND
Strengths and Weaknesses
Cooredinates of two rectangles are given how would you find if they intersect or not
how to make your system crash using code.
Resume screen then an easy OA. There were two back-to-back interviews where there were behaviourals for the first 15 minutes and then they asked me a difficult LeetCode question on graphs and I think it was finding redundant connections.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about one time you worked in a team with engineers where you had to resolve a technical issue,