Microsoft Software Engineer - Internship interview questions
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I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2020
Interview
First got in HR interview. The interviewer had NO idea about the position!!
Then they sent me online test and for me this is so disrespecting to the candidate, give us people to talk to and share ideas with!
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Herzliya) in Mar 2021
Interview
1 . 40 min skype call Behavioral - with someone from canada, kind of HR interview.
2 . 80 min codility test
- you can use any prog language you want.
- medium difficulty
3. 60 min coding
4, 60 min coding
-- very hard interviews. might ask you about operation systems.
5. interview with the team head
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
40 min - zoom meeting. Behavioral interview
1. how woud you explain recurison to a six years old kid.
2. 9 coins 1 is heavier then the other.
80 min codility test -
- long binary num-
how many time need to divide by 2 or if odd subtruct 1 to reach
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Jerusalem) in Oct 2020
Interview
I took an online coding test through www.codility.com and then had a skype interview. The internship post was in Israel but the interview was in English with an American interviewer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The online test was performed by www.codility.com and concluded of 3 questions.
The interview wasn't really technical, but I was asked to try and explain the concept of recursion as if I was talking to a 6 year old (at least for me it was the toughest part of the interview... :/) along the interview I was also asked to try and solve a number of not difficult riddles.