Microsoft Intern Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details Overall Process

Round 1
 90 Minutes Online round (MCQ + no negetive marking)
This round had 3 sections - Mathematics, logical reasoning and technical section and for each section 30 minutes were allotted + 1 minute break between every section

>Mathematics- General questions like river and boat question, tap and water relative velocity, vectors etc. (Go through RS Agrawal's book and you can easily score well in this section)

>Logical Reasoning : Paragraph based question, questions on relation (A's father is B and C is sister of B what is relation between A and B), and some similar questions (A B C D E two are male one is lawer ......etc etc, who's profession is lawer )

>Technical: Basic C/C++

Round 2.
Programming
4 questions 90 minutes
3 of them would be purely programming based (basic stack queue linkedlist)
1 question on error testing/real world problem (no programming)

Round 3 and 4
Technical Interviews
70% datastructures and algorithms
10% Behavourial (Tell me about yourself, why do you want to join microsoft etc etc)
rest 20% operating system, sql, puzzle(at max 1 puzzle)

Round 5
HR interview

Interview Details I had dropped my resume in the University Career fair and they got back to me within a week or so to schedule an interview in my college.

Onsite Interview (at my university):
I had a 30 minute Onsite interview. It started off with why I was interested in MSFT. The interviewer then explained my the 3 different roles (SDE, SDET and PM) and I was asked which particular roles I was interested in. After that, I was given a simple question on Binary trees and I was asked to write a program. I had written a recursive code and was asked about the drawbacks of using recursive programs. And then I was asked to write test cases for my program.

I guess what they were looking for primarily was
1. Interest in the company
2. If I can write good code and make sure there are no room for error
3. How broad are my test cases and the scenarios

After around 2 weeks, I got a mail that I had cleared the first round and they were flying me to seattle for the next set of rounds.

Interview in Seattle:
There were around 15 of us and we were made to sit in one of the conference rooms with food. We were expected to have 4 rounds of interviews with different sets of employees and each interview would last for 45 minutes followed by a 15 minute break. By around 1, there were around 15 employees coming in and calling out a name and they would be interviewing us. The same happened for the next 4 rounds too.

The questions were pretty straight forward and simple. The ones you'd find in the career cup books.

After the 4 rounds of interviews, we were taken to the recreation room where we had Xboxs to play with and to keep our mind off the interview results. They called us one by one and gave the results the same day. And we were given around a week to accept the offer

Negotiation Details – No negotiation for interns

Interview Details I was called for a group interview by email. The interview process was broken up into three different parts. The first was a description of what the inters would do if they got the job. The second was a group dynamic which required us to find a software solutiona real world IT problem. The third, they asked us to write a composition on why they should hire me.

Interview Details It was quite straigthtforward.
Interviewer was very friendly.
Asked about questions regarding datastructure.
Also had some algorithmic questions regarding single linked list.
Asked to write more efficient algorithm for find the n th element of a singly linked list.
Also asked which product of microsoft I wished to make some changes and why?
He also explained about different teams in microsoft.
Interview lasts for about 30mins.
I was not ready to relocate

Interview Details Applied through my school. Had a 30 minute in-person interview which included discussing my resume and experiences, microsoft, etc. as well as a whiteboard programming problem.

Interview Details It was a campus interview. It was a 30 min interview. The interviewer asked questions on previous projects for the first 15 mins and then asked a programming question

Interview Details Emailed a recruiter about The Foundry, one of Microsoft's summer internship programs. Received an email back asking to set up a phone interview that very day.

The phone interview was nothing heavy, just general questions about my history as an undergraduate student, favorite project, etc.

I was invited for an on-site, along with a group of maybe 10 others that morning. Very nice people. There was a generous breakfast for all of us. Met with 4 engineers for about an hour each. Three were technical. I had to do things like demonstrate websites that I thought had a nice UI, talk about the inner workings (hardware and software) of a mobile device (in a general sense), and some whiteboard coding.

I was told immediately after the process ended that I was not chosen. They sat us in a room and called us out one by one to break the news. We weren't aware at the moment, but those that remained in the room were hired.

Interview Details On campus interviews which were conducted for two days. The worst part in the process was that there was just one interviewer and he asked the same question to all the students for 2 days. Clearly students interviewed on the second day had an upper hand.

Interview Details I submit my resume on a info session, then got an on-campus interview a month later. I didn't prepare for it. The interview divided into three part, behavioral questions, then technical questions including: test cases, design a product, algorithm, system (memory); then Q&A.