Microsoft Software Developer Intern interview questions
Updated May 11, 2026
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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.
Common stages of the interview process at Microsoft as a Software Developer Intern according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
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1 day, 3 rounds of interviews. Interviewers were nice and considerate. The proccess was nice and pleasant. You have to pass the first 2 interviews to get to the third which is supposed to be conducted by the hiring manager
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leetcode easy questions (anagram) for warm-up then leetcode medium difficulty (battleship)
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
First Round - Online Assessment then 2 Technical HR rounds continuously
OA had 2 questions related to Dynamic Programming and one is vector based question. One question is easy to medium and another is medium to hard
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Asked string based questions in technical HR round
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in Jul 2024
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It was a on campus interview, i had 2 round both were medium DSA questions, first interview did has some Core DSA concepts also, not the leetcode problems like what are arrays how they differ from linked list, what the concept behind binary search
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Question 1
Add two binary strings and return the result in binary string