Microsoft Software Engineer - Internship interview questions
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Met a recruiter at an on campus event, had an on campus interview. Passed that and flew to Seattle for the final round. Had two interviews with managers from the organization they wanted me to join.
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The technical questions were pretty basic algorithmic, didn't ask a lot about experience.
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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Question 1
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.