Microsoft Software Developer - Internship interview questions
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I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Taipei) in Mar 2019
Interview
1. a group interview consisting of self introduction, basic knowledge of computer science (e.g., data structure, algorithm complexity, operation system), and English
2. two rounds of online coding tests whose difficulty is close to medium and hard problems in Leetcode
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
complexity of binary search tree, explanation of deadlock
Whiteboarding session, followed by questions and answers about personal work history & interests. I asked some questions unrelated to the engineering position about the research division, and the interviewer seem to take this as my interests being elsewhere than pure SWE; I was not called back to interview for the internship position.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (El Cairo, ) in Apr 2021
Interview
First I got a link for assessment that contains 2 problems, after submitting my solutions I received an email with the interview date.
The interview was 2 phases and both were mainly problem-solving questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The Longest substring with non repeating characters.