Microsoft Corporation SDE Intern Interview Questions, Process, and Tips for Freshers

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Round: Test
Experience: time- 30 minutes.This was conducted on CoCubes.com ,there were around 25 questions of varying level of difficulty. Topics: C , C++ , Aptitude.Around 60 students out of 150 were shortlisted for the next round.

Round: Test
Experience: time – 90 minutesThis was conducted on the same day. There were two questions of data structure.1) Write a function to check whether the parenthesis ( “( )”, “{ }” , “[ ]” ) in a given string are balanced or not.

-----) Write a recursive function to make a list from two given Linked lists, that contain intersection of the elements present in the given lists inplace.37 students were shortlisted for the next round.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Time- 35 minsThe interview started with my introduction. Then there was a long discussion on my project. He told me the flaws in my project and asked me to tell how would i deal with them.

1) Given two arrays of integers( in random order), how would u determine the rank of an element.

For ex: let the two arrays be

     46 32 16 73 57 2 and

     86 7 98 3 75     rank (46) = 6

     rank (86) = 10

     rank (2) = 1i don’t remember the exact question but it was similar to this. Fairly simple. I suggested some approaches and i was expected to come out with the best approach.

then i was asked to code my solution and design the test cases for the same.2) I was asked about my favorite subject.3)Write and explain the code to connect nodes at same level in a binary tree.

----- after the fourth round some of us were called for the next round.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was the last round. It went pretty well.The experience was awesome and i found that the people over there are very humble and i really liked their helping attitude.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I was asked questions on OS-
-Differentiate between mutex and semafore variables?– What does a thread and a process share in common?– What is a deadlock ?
There were few questions on C++.– Polymorphism and runtime polymorphism.– What is a virtual destructor?I was asked if i had any queries and i asked about the work that interns will get to do in microsoft and the interview ended.Only 9 were shortlisted for the further interviews. I was lucky enough to be one of them.We were called to Microsoft India Development Center, Hyderabad.

General Tips: Some interview tips-Stay calm, CONFIDENT and keep yourself motivated.Be honest.Try to keep your approach clean and don’t mess up things in your’s as well as interviewer’s mind.Don’t think about the results, just enjoy the interview process with a free mindFocus on building your concepts strong.
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