Microsoft Software Engineer Internship interview questions
Updated Jun 6, 2026
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The interviewer puts an unnecessarily amount of pressure on a third year collage student by talking about there careers in details when most of what they are saying we don't fully understand, making it harder for them to show there real skills, also one of the interviewers where talking to someone else leaving the mic open while I was solving a problem.
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they asked me to implement the add method for a binary tree followed by a problem to try to find it's brute force solution, the second interview was to implement an algorithm with 3 pointers to shrink a string by the number of repeated characters and override the original string with the answer.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Herzliya) in Oct 2024
Interview
- Applied online with the help of a friend.
- Received a home assessment with two medium-to-hard questions.
- Invited to an interview day consisting of:
- 3 interviews, each lasting 75 minutes.
- A 30-minute break between each interview.
- Interviews conducted by two engineers and a manager from the team. (each interview was with 1 person).
- The following day, got a call from the recruiter saying I passed.
- Received an offer.
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Word search, compare version numbers, Singleton pattern, 2Sum, and more hasp / set classic Leetcode qs.
Platica en inglés con el reclutador donde te pregunta sobre tí, tus experiencias y los proyectos que has realizado. Puede tocar un problema de entrevista técnica sencillo o mediano. Al final se pregunta por dudas generales.
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Preguntas tipo behavioural y experiencia personal.