Microsoft Software Engineer internship interview questions
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2 back to back rounds. Both leetcode medium questions and behavioral questions. Takes around 2 hours to complete. Was very accommodating and easy to talk to for both of the interviews.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Sep 2024
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I was asked Oops concept, DSA medium level questions from linked list, asked about hashing and how to handle collision in hash tables, Sql queries based on joins and some theortical concepts
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(1) Delete a node from a singly and doubly Linked List.
(2) validate an email
(3) Define encryption and decryption. what are the different kind of encryption methods
two coding Questions using two pointers and also string manegement, and also a personal interview for telling about yourself and your job, challenges, personal projects and you should use STAR method