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Intern Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 2 Aug 2023

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Newspaper Ad and was interviewed in Jul 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Logical reasoning , 1 Hour

Round 2 - Interview 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Who was the first president of USA
  • Q2. Why does Modi ji work for 18-18 hours and doesnt get tired
Round 3 - Group Discussion 

Manipur violence ? governments failure

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just be yourself

Top Microsoft Corporation Intern Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Reverse the order of words in a given sentence(an array of characters)
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Intern Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Case. There is a housing society “The wasteful society”, you collect all the household garbage and sell it to 5 different businesses. Determine what price you will pay to the society members in Rs/kg, given you want to make a profit of 20% ... read more
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Intern Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 13 Oct 2023

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Coding Test 

There were 2 question of medium to hard level

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. They ask 2 DSA based problem

Top Microsoft Corporation Intern Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Reverse the order of words in a given sentence(an array of characters)
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Intern Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Case. There is a housing society “The wasteful society”, you collect all the household garbage and sell it to 5 different businesses. Determine what price you will pay to the society members in Rs/kg, given you want to make a profit of 20% ... read more
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Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Sep 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Bi technical questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - be prepared. Read Read and Read

Top Microsoft Corporation Support Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. What are you day to day activity. How do you troubleshoot login issues?
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Support Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. How to handle escalations/ your approach to solve any issues/ why do you want to join support when already you are working on development
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Management Trainee Interview Questions & Answers

user image Ranvir Pandey

posted on 26 Aug 2023

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Walk-in and was interviewed in Jul 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Assignment 

Mini project of developing

Round 3 - Group Discussion 

About work and management

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Microsoft Corporation Management Trainee interview:
  • HTML
  • CSS
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Management

Management Trainee Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. What do you mean by balance sheet reconciliation could you explain briefly?
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Nov 2023. There were 5 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Ml fundamentals
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Ml system design
  • Ans. 

    Designing a machine learning system involves selecting appropriate algorithms, data preprocessing, model evaluation, and deployment strategies.

    • Understand the problem and define objectives

    • Select appropriate algorithms based on the problem (e.g. regression, classification, clustering)

    • Preprocess data (e.g. cleaning, normalization, feature engineering)

    • Split data into training and testing sets for model evaluation

    • Tune hyper...

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Coding round sting based problem
Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Sql and multiple small coding questions
Round 5 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Problem solving

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Data Scientist 2 Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. 1. If you already have a lot of features and you also have categorical column what strategy will you use to encode the categorical column so that the overall feature count should not increase or should not exceed much further.
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Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Technical and business development questions
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Details review of the work at the current company

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Need to relate the current work with position and how you can contribute to the company

Project Manager Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. What is success & what is failure to you? How do you handle failure? - not much interviewer asks such questions, but I believe these are very important questions, if you want to succeed.
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in May 2023. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Coding Test 

Easy questions from leetcode

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Easy DFS graph question
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. System Design Question

Top Microsoft Corporation Software Developer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Buses Origin Problem Statement You have been provided with an array where each element specifies the number of buses that can be boarded at each respective bus stop. Buses will only stop at locations that are multiples of the bus stop they ... read more
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Software Developer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Maximum Subarray Sum Problem Statement Given an array of integers, determine the maximum possible sum of any contiguous subarray within the array. Example: Input: array = [34, -50, 42, 14, -5, 86] Output: 137 Explanation: The maximum sum is... read more
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Usually medium LC questions

Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Design Snakes and Ladder
  • Ans. 

    Design a snakes and ladder game with a board, dice, and player pieces.

    • Create a game board with squares numbered from 1 to 100.

    • Place snakes and ladders on specific squares to move players up or down.

    • Players roll a dice to move their pieces on the board.

    • The first player to reach square 100 wins the game.

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Software Engineer2 Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. - Given a water -tight orientable 2-manifold, how to find if a point is inside or outside its volume? - Given a bunch of points with their coordinates, how to merge closeby points together? - How to determine if the normals of the two trian... read more
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Easy questions were asked related to OOPS, Mysql, and DBMS.

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Minimum path sum problem
  • Ans. 

    Minimum path sum problem involves finding the path with the smallest sum in a grid of numbers.

    • Start from the top left corner and move only right or down.

    • Use dynamic programming to store the minimum sum at each cell.

    • The final cell will contain the minimum path sum.

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Top Microsoft Corporation Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. You have a cuboid (m*n*p) each block of the cuboid is having a metallic ball. Now we are passing X-ray from front face and getting a bool matrix1 of m*p the elements are set if there is a black spot.(as we are passing X-ray) and another mat... read more
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Software Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Bridge and torch problem : Four people come to a river in the night. There is a narrow bridge, but it can only hold two people at a time. They have one torch and, because it's night, the torch has to be used when crossing the bridge. Person... read more
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Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Aug 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Questions asked was Hashmap custom implementation

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Question asked was Palindrome validation

Software Development Engineer II Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Given 2 large numeric comma seperated strings. You need to calculate their sum along with maintaining the correct position of commas. Example Test Case - s1 - "123,456,788" s2 - "1" output - "123,456,789" constraints - since the strings can... read more
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Microsoft Corporation Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Microsoft Corporation interview?
Microsoft Corporation interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Microsoft Corporation interview process are Technical, Coding Test and One-on-one Round.
How to prepare for Microsoft Corporation interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Microsoft Corporation. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Microsoft Corporation expect are microsoft, Computer science, C++, Coding and Python.
What are the top questions asked in Microsoft Corporation interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Microsoft Corporation interview -

  1. You are given infinite sequence of continuos natural numbers-1,2,3,4,5,6.........read more
  2. You have a cuboid (m*n*p) each block of the cuboid is having a metallic ball. ...read more
  3. Given a string of containing lower case letters and upper case characters. Find...read more
How long is the Microsoft Corporation interview process?

The duration of Microsoft Corporation interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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