Microsoft Software Engineer(Internship) interview questions
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I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Lagos) in Jan 2021
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Normal for a university recruiting. They asked about Data structures and algorithms mostly. Three stages. Chat with an interviewer. They also asked about past projects. the interview was Remote interview
HR Interview , Codility online coding test , 3 technical interviews. Each interview contains around 1-3 questions, depends on the difficulty of the questions and the flow of the interview.
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Given two strings, A and B such that B isn't longer than A, return True or False if B is a sub-string permutation of A.
30 min interview in English not technical but more personal. Asked me a few simple questions to get an understanding of my personality and way of thinking. Very nice and easy way to start the process.