Microsoft Software Engineer - Internship interview questions
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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
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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.
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The Longest substring with non repeating characters.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in May 2021
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I applied on their website, I received an email with a challenge code on codaility, the questions were hard.
It wasn't from leetcode, the topics were graphs and trees,I wasn't expecting a graph problem