Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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First was online tech screening with recruiter. then online assessmnet then onsite interview that consisted of 4-5 back-to-back sessions held on the same day. The online assessment was held on a common site aka Codility , hackerrank etc...
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In detail descibe a project that you started on your own
There were several rounds of both technical and behavioural questions with different members of the team as well as management. Each interview consisted of at least 1 technical question focussing on different computer science topics.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Aug 2021
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Coding test. If passed, followed with 4 coding interviews with four different engineers. All interviews started with some introduction talk, then some coding, and finally closing with the time for me to ask questions
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Question 1
Linked list with additional pointer pointing to random element in the list. Write an algorithm to copy the list.