Microsoft Software Engineer internship interview questions
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There was a day of online interviews. It consisted of two back-to-back technical interviews, and if you pass both, you have another one with the team lead in the afternoon. The first interview had two LeetCode questions, while the second focused on an object-oriented programming (OOP) question.
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The first LeetCode question was something like: Given an array and a target number, return the indices of the two numbers in the array that sum up to the target. The solution should have optimal time complexity.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2024
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The interviewers were very nice and helpful when completing the leetcode problems. They were also very great to connect and talk with! Overall, I had a great experience with the interview
CV round, then screening which had a greedy algorithm and a string management question. last round consisted of a sequence of string on which had to be identified a maxmin problem involving a prefix. also a bst tree question
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