Microsoft Graduate Software Engineer interview questions

After sitting down the interviewer started the programming question directly which is the design of backend API for a web project. There is no other content in that short interview.

There were two stages, first was a Skype call with a developer from the Dublin office. Consisted of technical discussions about testing, design and one coding question with walk through of code once it was written. There was some internet issues and call had to be rescheduled developer was very nice about this. The second stage was a half day interview panel with one developer/manager for a round of 35-40 minutes each, there was 5 people doing this at the same time as me so we just switched interviews for the next round. There was 4 -5 rounds of this. This started at 8:30 am in their Dublin office so they could have time to go through everyone. Interviews arrived late, had to write my name down for receptionist to print name tag for me. They got my first name right but last name was just a jumble of letters, have a pretty normal Irish name so they must not have been able to read my writing. Each of the interviews started with talking about past internships I did, the role I had in them and development I did as part of them. The questions asked were normal for the most part. There was some stand out moments though: - asked an interview what they likes/enjoyed about the time at work at Microsoft, they replied that it was different for every one and proceeded to skip it. - one of the interviews forgot my name (remember name tag was on), same interviewer had to go to the toilet as soon as the round began, lost interview time with this. Started a question off with if you where a game developer (wasn't and job had nothing to do with games). - HR person for the day, that apparently did seven rounds of interviews to get their job, had no idea that I was still attending college and had to go there after interview. -second interview was the only one to mention messed up name tag. -got a "free" hoodie out of a mess of a day, missed a two hour lecture for nothing really that day.