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      Software Engineer Interview

      Dec 29, 2014
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Dec 2014

      Interview

      Applied through University recruiting, there was a first technical question to write on paper and after that you got a call if you pass to the first round of interviews. The first round was with one employee from Redmond, first minutes was a little talk and introduction, after that a question related to Binary Trees, i managed to answer it correctly, after that he gave me another question related to the original problem and i made it good, then it was a little talk and some feedback from the interview which i think was a nice detail from the interviewer. After a few weeks I got an email from the recruiter, he told me that my interviewer recommended for the next round so a final round of interviews was scheduled next month. Honestly i studied very little, i reviewed some algorithms but the final round was totally different, there was three back to back interviews, all in the same format that the previous round, i think i made it good on the first two, however, the last one i didn't like the interviewer too much, he didn't speak too much and was always paying attention to his computer rather than the interview, after a week I recieved a rejection email. As a tip, read Program Interviews Exposed and Cracking the Interview code, also review algorithms and data structures, TALK ALOUD on the interview! this is very important!

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Algorithm and Data Structure questions
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