Microsoft Software Engineer - Internship interview questions
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft
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There were 3 interview. First two were based on DSA alone, 3rd was more about Resume and HR. I thew first interview they asked a binary search based question of medium diffculty. In the second they asked a tree traversal based question and in the 3rd they asked from resume.
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There were 3 interview. First two were based on DSA alone, 3rd was more about Resume and HR. I thew first interview they asked a binary search based question of medium diffculty. In the second they asked a tree traversal based question and in the 3rd they asked from resume.
I was reached out by a recruiter to schedule a first round interview. After this interview I was told that they will let me know if I'm selected for final round interviews after a few weeks. The final round consisted of 3 back to back interviews in one day. After that, I waited a few days until I heard back.
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Asked about my past projects, internships, basic OOP concepts, DSA questions, leetcode easy/medium
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Dublín, Dublín) in Dec 2021
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first interview they ask you basic software knowledge questions before moving into a problem solving question(non coding) and in the final interview you have to talk to the team (individually) with 1-3 mins break in between and each ask you a coding question
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for the problem solving question you were asked how you would split a rock with an unknown weight into 3 equal parts