Microsoft Software Developer Intern interview questions
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Software Developer Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer Intern roles take an average of 150 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 44 days.
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applied to job posting and received interview for initial recruiter phone screen. completed initial phone screen and received invitation for technical interviews. two rounds of 45min interviews, each had a few behavioural questions and LC questions.
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What is the best data structure for a phone book with names and phone numbers? Code an example solution and explain
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Noida) in Sep 2023
Interview
The first round was technical. The interviewer was friendly and cooperative. She was kind enough to ask me which topic on DSA I'm comfortable with. She gave two questions on string only. The interview went quite well from my side but maybe she wasn't satisfied.
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Question 1
Given a string, find the maximum consecutive repeating character.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Taipei) in Nov 2023
Interview
The interview is online, with the team lead. Asked about some front-end basics and one leetcode easy problem. Of course, some BG problems to make sure I am familiar with React.
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Question 1
1. How do React props drill between components?
2. Some binary search related Leetcode.