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Software Development Engineer Interview

Nov 5, 2012

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Easy interview

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft

Interview

My resume got selected at our campus career fair and was scheduled for a one on one interview in the campus. The interviewer was very friendly and helpful and asked general questions about my projects , experience with my courses, what part of software development i would like to work on and so on. After that he asked me a coding question with some test cases.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Merge two sorted linked lists. Give test cases.

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Software Development Engineer Interview

Nov 4, 2012

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Easy interview

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Phoenix, AZ) in Oct 2012

Interview

The first interview is 30 minutes long. The first half is behavioral questions while the second half is about coding. It was a very simple interview. If you do well, then in 2 days there would be a second interview that is about 2 hours long. In the email it said that you only needed to be comfortable, and could be dressed up casually.

Interview questions [2]

Question 1

In one of your group projects, what was the most challenging problem?

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Question 2

Passing in a linked list and a list of ids, return back a linked list with the nodes containing an id from the list removed.

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Software Development Engineer Interview

Nov 1, 2012

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Easy interview

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Stanford, CA) in Oct 2012

Interview

Applied on camps and scheduled interview on campus as well. The interview went fine. It was a regular coding interview with a fairly straightforward question on arrays that I solved pretty efficiently. Not sure why they didn't call back for the next round. This seemed to happen to some others too.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

You are given an array of integers 'A' and a number 'x'. Find the largest values in 'A' such that it is smaller than 'x'.

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Software Development Engineer Interview

Nov 5, 2012

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Easy interview

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft

Interview

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Merge two sorted linked lists. Give test cases.

Answer question

Software Development Engineer Interview

Nov 4, 2012

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Easy interview

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Phoenix, AZ) in Oct 2012

Interview

Interview questions [2]

Question 1

In one of your group projects, what was the most challenging problem?

Answer question

Question 2

Passing in a linked list and a list of ids, return back a linked list with the nodes containing an id from the list removed.

Answer question

Software Development Engineer Interview

Nov 1, 2012

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Easy interview

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Stanford, CA) in Oct 2012

Interview

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

You are given an array of integers 'A' and a number 'x'. Find the largest values in 'A' such that it is smaller than 'x'.

1 Answer

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