Microsoft Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern interview questions

The interview process began, he asks me to introduce myself and then he gave me my first question, check if binary representation of a number is a palindrome, consider all 32 bits. So, 5 would not be a palindrome by this logic. He asked me to write and run the code on my own IDE, screen was shared and platform was MS Teams. After this, we moved to next question, mirror trees-he asked me to code it, and then again another question on trees - given the parent pointer of every node, find the leftmost right cousin of given node. I couldn't run the code because we were running out of time. I did a dry run and it worked for some sample cases, but after the interview, I found out that it didn't work for some cases. While I was writing the code, he said he was going for tea, and he came back in about 5 minutes. After that, he simply said the process is over, you can leave. He asked me to cut paste all code in the chat window.

It was on campus hiring program.It was pretty interactive. The people in microsoft were very friendly and they want to hire you so do not give them a chance to reject . Pro tip- have good projects on your resume and it will give an edge over others.