I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jan 2011
Interview
30m interview with a Microsoft employee. Was a basic overview of basic programming skills, such as testing and Big O. Followed up by a simple programming problem to solve on the white board. The interview was focusing less on your answers and more on how you respond under pressure, and your though process to get to a answer.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What values would you use to test the code you wrote.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Syracuse, NY) in Oct 2010
Interview
It was a campus event through the career fair. Was asked to implement breadth first B-tree parsing algorithm and to write a code.
I was then given a string with unknown length in which I had to sort the alphabets from the numerals in-string.(no other variable allowed.)
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Nov 2010
Interview
It was on Campus Interview for intern selection , the first round was a written test consisting of five questions ,all related to coding , the second , third and fourth round was a 1:1 interview in which each inter viewer asked me to write one code for the questions . The last was that taken by a Senior General Manager at his hotel suite who gave us two write two codes to write , one at a time.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
1:1 first round :Write code for which returns the in-order successor of a given node . (Hint : Fn. prototype has to be : node* in_order(node* current_node);
1:1 round 3: This was the toughest for me . Given a database of string . And a record of words and replacement pairs , such that if a given word occured in the string it had to be replaced by the replacement pair provided in the record.
GM:1(called as AA ) :: Given a character array of consisting of A-Z characters , i had to replace a series of characters in the following manner :AAAABBCCC
to be replaced by 4A2B3C.